David Aldridge

Over a million people commit suicide worldwide every year. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at the person at risk, the family and personal relationships…

Fragile X syndrome is one of the main causes of child developmental delay and autism spectrum disorders. A premutated form of the same gene is…

Parenting a severely disruptive child can be exhausting and demoralizing to the point where breaking the cycle of bad behaviour seems an impossible task. Happy…

Recent studies show that music can reach the parts of the human brain that are linked to addiction, and can function as an integral part…

Parents, teachers and other professionals often struggle to know how to deal with disruptive, abusive or aggressive behaviour. This book addresses the urgent need for…

Musical improvisation is an increasingly recognised rehabilitative therapy for people who have experienced traumatic brain injury initially thought to be 'unreachable' or 'non-responsive'. Music Therapy…

Melody is thought to be an 'essential core' of music. In the context of music therapy, looking at how patients develop their own melodies in…

This international collection examines the opportunities for using music-induced states of altered consciousness to promote physical and mental healing, treat substance dependence, and in spiritual…

The central tenet of this innovative collection is that identity can be regarded as a performance, achieved through and in dialogue with others. The authors…

Research and clinical work are often perceived as opposites in the field of music therapy. This book shows, for the first time, how these two…

How do we decide on the most effective way to heal ourselves or our patients? Complementary therapies are a vital part of any integrated approach…

Within the last decade music therapists have developed their work with the elderly and with people with dementia. Drawing on the diverse research and considerable…

The spiritual factors associated with healing are increasingly being acknowledged by modern medicine. Our definition of what constitutes health has expanded beyond the purely medical,…

Within the last decade music therapists have developed their work with people who have life-threatening illnesses and with those who are dying. This book presents…

Since the early 1960s there has been an enormous increase in the numbers of cases of suicide, self-mutilation and depression, adolescents and the elderly being…

In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging volume, David Aldridge explores the power of music as a healing treatment for a broad spectrum of physical and mental…