Recent music therapy advances and evidence-based practices have earned respect within the
medical sciences and garnered popularity amongst users and practitioners. While integrative
medicine treats the whole patient with ayurvedic and allopathic medicine music therapy
provides a safe and effective way of managing stress pain unpleasant symptoms response to
illness and treatment side effects and has been proven to enhance patients' quality of life
and general wellbeing.Exploring the ways in which these methods have been practised throughout
history the author takes readers on a journey from illness to wellness and shows how this can
be guided through music. The book instructs music therapists and other practitioners in the use
of specific techniques providing examples of clinical applications. It includes activities
that prepare a music therapist physically emotionally and musically for this journey with
another and provides case studies to explore the difficulties that might arise.
