Music, Music Therapy and Refugees: Aspects of Trauma

By: Sami Alanne

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Synopsis: This book is the first of its kind dealing with music, therapy, and traumas for music therapists, psychotherapists, and other mental health workers working with refugees, asylum seekers and their families. It follows the music therapy literature by studying music and traumas from the psychodynamic principles and can be used for the educational purposes of treating, especially from different cultural backgrounds. In addition to the clinical and educational purposes, this book can also be used as a reference book for researchers of music therapy and its methods for refugees. This book is contributing to the most recent psychological, social, and philosophical discussions and aspects of liberating musical practices from oppression and discrimination. Cultural attuning and dialoguing are proposed as the methods for building ethically sound practices with clients from different social and normative backgrounds.