The Music in Music Therapy-Psychodynamic Music Therapy in Europe: Clinical Theoretical and Research Approaches

The in Therapy-Psychodynamic Therapy in Europe: Clinical, Theoretical and Research Approaches, edited by Jos De Backer and Julie Sutton. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014. ISBN 978-1-84905353-2 (hbk); 978-0-85700-712-4 (ebk).The in Therapy-Psychodynamic Therapy in Europe: Clinical, Theoretical and Research Approaches offers the reader a wide range of perspectives on European approaches to practice. Editors Jos De Backer and Julie Sutton focus on the role of within addressing how vital musicianship is to the identity of therapists.My reaction when 1 field the book in my hand was that it would be about music in therapy approaches. The first part of the title, The in Therapy, refers to what Bruscia (1998) describes as in practices during which is used as a tool. The second part, Psychodynamic Therapy in Europe, refers to therapy. However, after reading the entire book, I find that it is not just about music in therapy practices; some of the articles describe processes that use as or psychotherapy processes that are not in nature. For this reason, I think the title of the book does not give a clear indication of the contents of the book. A more accurate title would have been Music and Therapy: Psychotherapy in This way the title would have included both in and as practices and all psychotherapy theories that are represented in the book. psychotherapy refers to all psychotherapeutic approaches; refers only to approaches.In my opinion, the pronounced strength of the book is clearly the insightful and noteworthy clinical case material. It was captivating to read the case studies and to see how the different authors reflected upon them. However, as is typical with article collation books, the weakness of this book is the lack of cohesion between different chapters. It is as if it contains different authors' conference presentations and papers instead of invited articles on carefully pre-selected topics. The individual chapters are all remarkable, thought-provoking, and very well written, but they do not seem linked with each other, and the synthesis and integration across chapters is missing. Also confusing is the fact that some of the articles clearly do not present perspectives.After an introductory chapter, this book is organized into three parts: Part 1 (Chapters 2-4) introduces the context for in Europe; Part 2 (Chapters 5-18) introduces clinical and research perspectives; and Part 3 (Chapters 19-21) deals with continuing professional development. The following is a brief summary of the content.Part 1: The Context for Therapy in EuropeAs a context for in Europe, the book presents three articles. In Chapter 2, the editors along with Monika Nocker-Ribaupierre provide a historical perspective of the European Therapy Confederation (EMTC). This is very interesting read and brings up many good memories. After all, I represented Finland in the EMTC from 1993 to 2001 before I moved to Canada.In Chapter 3, De Backer and Sutton first introduce theoretical perspectives of therapy. I think it would have made more sense if they had only included an overview of therapy. Instead, they also introduce developmental, behavioural, Gestalt, cognitive, systemic, humanistic, eclectic, and psychosocial theories as examples of the main approaches in Europe. Instead of focusing on the title of the book, psychodynamic therapy, they also introduce Creative Therapy, physiological behavioural medical and musical healing models (pp. …

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