Between Pre-Objectivity and Objectivity: A Phenomenological Study of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapists' Experiences of Healing in Music
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Following four months of fieldwork at the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy in New York City, this thesis investigates the experiences of Nordoff-Robbins music therapists who work with "hard to reach" clients from a phenomenological perspective.The "hard to reach" client is conceptualized as having a disorder of communication which therapy restores.Based on therapists' experiences, three phenomenological problems are addressed: the problem of training therapeutic habits of perception, the problem of creativity, and the problem of language to describe lived experience in music.It was found that creative music therapists learn to listen and respond with clinical intention, guiding the pre-objective, synaesthetic perception of the client.In improvisation, determinacy and indeterminacy are negotiated with each musical expression, moving between pre-objective and objective experiential realms.Finally, therapists' lived experience is partial and indeterminate and is expressed through metaphor and poetics to best capture the pre-objective experience of the world.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".