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WE-23 |
Music Psychotherapy: When Words Sing and Music Speaks |
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Name |
Diane Austin |
Nationality |
USA |
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Title |
Doctor/Associate Professor |
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Affiliation |
New York University, Director of the Music
Psychotherapy Center |
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Workshop type |
Between-Conference workshop
Evenings of Oct 13th, 14th and 15th, 2008 (three evenings
during the conference, 9hours) |
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Language |
English with Chinese
translator |
Number of
trainees |
30--50 |
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Abstract or brief
introduction of the workshop
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This workshop will
provide opportunities for participants to
experience the power of music and the voice
within a psychotherapeutic context. We will
explore the use of music and vocal
improvisation through exercises and
activities that elicit spontaneity, deepen
intrapsychic and interpersonal connections
and retrieve feelings, images and memories
from the unconscious.
Through audiotaped case examples from my
work in private practice with adults, I will
describe how songs, singing and musical
improvisation can be used in various stages
of the healing process to access and work
through early childhood wounds. ˇ°Vocal
Holdingˇ±, ˇ°Free Associative Singingˇ± and
other techniques developed by the presenter
will demonstrate some of the ways in which
these techniques work to facilitate a
therapeutic regression so that clients can
recover split off, dissociated aspects of
themselves. These dissociated aspects of the
personality can then be related to and
gradually integrated through music and
verbal processing, resulting in a more
complete, cohesive sense of self and
identity.
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CV of the trainer |
Dr. Diane Austin DA,
LCAT, ACMT is the Director of the Music
Psychotherapy Center where she offers a
two-year certificate program in music
psychotherapy focusing on the voice. Dr.
Austin has maintained a private practice in
music psychotherapy for 18 years,
supervising creative arts therapists and is
an associate professor in the music therapy
department at New York University. She is
the Co-founder and was the Director of the
Music Therapy Program for adolescents in
foster care at the Turtle Bay Music School
and has lectured and taught throughout the
U.S. and internationally on the use of the
voice and music psychotherapy incorporating
theories and ideas from depth psychology,
trauma theory and psychodrama. Her work has
been published in numerous journals and
books and translated into Japanese, Korean,
and Portuguese. Diane currently serves on
the advisory board for the Brooklyn
Philharmonic Orchestra music therapy
outreach program.
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