Music therapy as an Anti-Oppressive Practice

Baines, Susan

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2012.09.003

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“…Thus, the recovery perspectives emphasize a radical level of user participation related to service provision (Slade, 2009). Linked to such ideas of user participation, the possibilities to promote clients agency in music therapy have political implications regarding power relations and civil rights (Baines, 2013; Edwards, 2006; Solli, 2012; Stige, 2006). …”

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“The Opposite of Treatment”: A qualitative study of how patients diagnosed with psychosis experience music therapy

Solli

Rolvsjord

2014

Nordic Journal of Music Therapy

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Previous research studies regarding music therapy and severe mental illness have mainly adopted quantitative methodologies in order to study the effectiveness of music therapy interventions. Studies that have explored service users’ experiences of participation in music therapy are small in number, and almost nonexistent in the field of psychosis. This study aimed to explore how mental health patients with a diagnosis of psychosis experienced participation in music therapy, in general, and more specifically how they experienced music therapy in relation to their current mental state and life situation. Nine inpatients with psychosis were interviewed using a semi-structured interview focusing on the participants’ experiences of music therapy in individual sessions, groups, and performances. Through the use of interpretative phenomenological analysis, four super-ordinate themes central to the participants’ experiences were found: freedom, contact, well-being, and symptom reduction. Based on the findings, mental health recovery, positive mental health, and agency are proposed as constituting a better framework for music therapy in mental healthcare than a primary focus on symptom remission and functional improvement.

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“The Opposite of Treatment”: A qualitative study of how patients diagnosed with psychosis experience music therapy

Solli

Rolvsjord

2014

Nordic Journal of Music Therapy

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“…Wilson (2005) discussed the changing service strategies in psychiatric services, and the changing politics of psychiatric hospitals. Procter (2004) discusses potentials for music therapy in nonmedical settings, and Baines explores the contexts of user-led services and anti-oppressive practice (Baines, 2003, 2013; Baines & Danko, 2010). Broader philosophical and political contexts of mental health care are also discussed by Rolvsjord (2010) and Solli (2012).…”

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Concepts of context in music therapy

Rolvsjord

Stige

2013

Nordic Journal of Music Therapy

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In contemporary music therapy as well as in related interdisciplinary fields, the importance of context in relation to theory, research, and practice has been emphasized. However, the word context seems to be used in several different ways and conceptualizations of contextual approaches vary too. The objective of this theoretical article is to clarify traditions of language use in relation to context in music therapy. In reviewing and discussing the literature, we focus on the field of mental health care. When discussing issues related to context, this literature partly focuses on the surroundings of music therapy practice, partly on the ecology of reciprocal influences within and between situations or systems. On this basis, three types of context awareness in music therapy are identified: music therapy in context; music therapy as context; and music therapy as interacting contexts. The identified types of context awareness are exemplified through references to music therapy literature and then discussed in relation to two very different metaphors, namely context as frame and context as link. Implications for practice, research, and theory development in music therapy are suggested.

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“…Involvement of clients in music therapy is also viewed as beneficial in shaping the quality of music therapy (Rolvsjord, ). There is a need for more research on music drawing directly on the perspectives and experiences of service users (Baines, , , ; McCaffrey, ). The link between music and mental health represents an important area of investigation and scholarship.…”

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“…Music therapy may thus represent a tool aimed at producing normal, subjects complacent with the status quo, who are certainly not Mad. Critical orientations toward understanding music as an anti‐oppressive practice are needed to address power inequalities, social injustices (See Baines, , , ) and counter sanism. Subsequently, I introduce themes and avenues serving as platforms from which one may critique dominant mental‐health‐related discourses in mainstream music.…”

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Mad Studies and Mad-Positive Music

Castrodale¹

2019

New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

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In this paper I unpack how Mad‐positive music may disrupt pathogizing mental‐health discourses and affirm Mad subjectivities. I draw on the field of Mad Studies to discuss how Mad‐positive music recognizes the subjugated knowledge(s) of self‐identifying Mad persons, troubles the dominance of psy‐disciplinary knowledge(s), and opens complex Mad‐positive spaces. I empirically draw on Mad musicians’ lyrical work to demonstrate how Mad music may be epistemologically‐dissonant with dominant mental health biomedical paradigms that pathologically root mental illness in individuals. Lastly, I suggest that Mad‐positive music inserts Mad counter knowledge(s), complex radical narratives, and draws directly on Mad persons’ lived experiences in ways that offer new pedagogical insights into contemporary mental‐health systemic practices.

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Music therapy as an Anti-Oppressive Practice

Cited by 79 publications

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“The Opposite of Treatment”: A qualitative study of how patients diagnosed with psychosis experience music therapy

“The Opposite of Treatment”: A qualitative study of how patients diagnosed with psychosis experience music therapy

Concepts of context in music therapy

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