Receptive Music Therapy, Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) in Phase- Oriented Treatment of Patients with Complex PTSD

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Rudstam
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Guided Imagery ◽  
Complex Ptsd ◽  
Guided Imagery And Music ◽  
Receptive Music Therapy

Multimodal Imagery in the Receptive Music Therapy Model Guided Imagery and Music (GIM)

2019 ◽  
pp. 426-444
Author(s):  
Lars Ole Bonde
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Guided Imagery ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Guided Imagery And Music ◽  
Musical Imagery ◽  
Receptive Music Therapy ◽  
Therapy Model ◽  
Multimodal Imagery ◽  
Bonny Method

Lars Ole Bonde considers musical imagery in the context of music therapy sessions and focuses on the Bonny Method of guided imagery and music as a well-documented example of music imagery. While Bonde mainly focuses on listening in clinical settings, he argues that imagery listening should be seen as a health resource in everyday listening settings. Taking in perspectives from neuroaffective theory, Bonde analyzes clinical material and evidence from the analysis of EEG data and shows how music therapy theory—as a specific tradition within musicology—can contribute to research in music listening through a greater understanding of multimodal imagery in such listening.

scholarly journals Receptive Music Therapy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Grocke
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Guided Imagery ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Guided Imagery And Music ◽  
Therapeutic Goals ◽  
Live Music ◽  
Receptive Music Therapy ◽  
Bonny Method ◽  
Music And Imagery

Listening to music is an everyday experience for most people. In music therapy music listening can be used to support many therapeutic goals. This chapter presents an overview of methods used in receptive music therapy that are supported by research literature, including music-assisted relaxation, music and imagery, and Guided Imagery and Music (Bonny Method). Salient features of each approach are outlined and supported with evidence-based research. Elements of music used in relaxation and imagery are discussed in some further depth to highlight the need for greater transparency when reporting the effect of recorded and live music in receptive music therapy.

Music as Co-Therapist: Towards a Taxonomy of Music in Therapeutic Music and Imagery Work

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margareta Wärja ◽  
Lars Ole Bonde
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Guided Imagery And Music ◽  
Receptive Music Therapy ◽  
Bonny Method ◽  
Therapeutic Medium ◽  
Music And Imagery

In receptive music therapy, music listening is used as a therapeutic medium in many different ways. The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is a specific receptive music therapy model where the client or patient listens to selected classical music in an expanded state of consciousness in an ongoing dialogue with the therapist, facilitating symbolic and metaphorical imagery in many modalities. In this model, music is often considered a “co-therapist”, and more than 100 music programs are used to address specific issues and problems. However, no classification of the music used in GIM exists. This article presents a matrix with 3 major categories: 1) Supportive music – 2) Mixed supportive and challenging music – 3) Challenging music, with three subcategories within each category. Based on a review of literature related to music listening in music and medicine the taxonomy is introduced and its relevance for the Bonny Method discussed, with special focus on two adaptations: KMR-Brief Music Journeys and Group Music and Imagery (GrpMI). Vignettes from KMR with one individual cancer patient and from GrpMI sessions with psychiatric patients are presented and related to the taxonomy.

scholarly journals Book Review: Advanced methods of music therapy practice: Analytical Music Therapy, the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, Nordoff-Robbins music therapy, and vocal psychotherapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Kayla Daly
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Guided Imagery ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Guided Imagery And Music ◽  
Advanced Method ◽  
Bonny Method ◽  
Over Time

Within the framework of qualitative inquiry, Nicki Cohen sets out to present an intimate exploration of four advanced methods of music therapy practice. Posing a series of several questions to four experts Cohen concisely presents each method’s initial development, how it has adapted over time to current practice, and finally, what the future of the method may become as it pertains to the field of music therapy. She presents her own journey in achieving advanced competency and the personal journeys of each founding person of the respective methods. The book is a gentle call for educators to inspire student exploration of their own intrapersonal relationships with music and how this exploration may influence the pursuance of advanced method training.

scholarly journals Narrative archetypes in the imagery of clients in Guided Imagery and music therapy sessions

2019 ◽  
pp. 030573561985412
Author(s):  
Helena Dukic ◽  
Richard Parncutt ◽  
Leslie Bunt
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Guided Imagery ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Psychological Function ◽  
Guided Imagery And Music ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Therapy Sessions

This study explores imagery evoked by Guided Imagery and Music’s (GIM) ‘Nurturing’ programme (seven classical orchestral compositions) and relates it to Jung’s Eros principle (passive and nurturing). Participants’ statements during 23 GIM sessions were recorded, transcribed and categorised by five coders into seven sub-categories, three of which belonged to Jung’s Eros (Flora, Fauna, Feelings), three to his Logos (Events, Structures, Actions), and one (Characters) that mixed Eros and Logos. The same categorisation was applied to 23 randomly selected fairy-tales from different cultures as a comparison. We predicted that participants’ imagery would be mainly Eros, corresponding to the choice of music. In fact, categories Structures(Logos), Flora(Eros), Fauna(Eros) and Feelings(Eros) occurred significantly more often in participants’ imagery than in the fairy-tale comparisons. These categories are plot-static: they do not generate active relationships between characters. Events(Logos), Actions(Logos) and Characters(Eros/Logos) occurred significantly less often. We conclude that music of the ‘Nurturing’ programme elicits mostly the Eros type imagery. It has the psychological function of creating an emotional-scenic background, but does not drive the narrative plot. In this sense, it may be misleading to describe the music of ‘Nurturing’ as a kind of virtual narrative or as having narrative structure or function.

The Legacy of Dr. Helen Bonny, and Guided Imagery and Music (GIM)

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Denise Grocke
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Guided Imagery ◽  
Guided Imagery And Music ◽  
Transformative Experiences ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Bonny Method ◽  
The Brain

Guided Imagery and Music is a model of music therapy developed by Dr. Helen Bonny in the 1960-1970’s. Research into the Bonny Method of GIM has advanced our understanding of the mechanisms involved when music evokes the imagination, enhances mood, and supports transformative experiences. Studies adopting qualitative approaches demonstrate the link between music elements and types of imagery responses, and EEG studies indicate possible pathways when music stimulates discrete areas of the brain.

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