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unusual facts about music therapy



Helen Bonny

Helen Bonny studied with E. Thayer Gaston at the University of Kansas in the early 1960s, where she received her bachelor's degree in music education, with a major in music therapy.

Mariam Cannon Hayes School of Music

A fully accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music, the Hayes School of Music offers undergraduate programs in music education, music performance, theory/composition, sacred music performance, music therapy, and music industry studies as well as Master of Music degrees in performance, music education, and music therapy.

Peter Seivewright

According to Britain's The Daily Telegraph, Seivewright underwent a quadruple-bypass operation in 2000, and used a work by Johann Sebastian Bach for purposes of music therapy.

Robin Lane

Since then, Lane has moved to western Massachusetts, where she works with the Turners Falls, Massachusetts Women's Resource Center, using music therapy to aid survivors of abuse.


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Juliette Alvin

She founded the Society of Music Therapy and Remedial Music in 1958, (later renamed the British Society for Music Therapy), and, in 1967, initiated Britain's first music therapy training program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Alvin visited Japan in 1967 and 1969, sharing theory and practice with Japanese music therapy pioneers.

Mary Priestley

Drawing on the theories of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Melanie Klein, analytic music therapy involves the use of musical improvisation to interpret unconscious processes.

Music therapy for Alzheimer's disease

Music therapy (MT) is one of the most common treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College

The College is known for the Mari Hulman George School of Equine Studies, which houses 50 horses on campus, as well as its pre-professional programs such as pre-veterinarian, pre-law, pre-medicine, pre-dentistry and several niche programs in leadership development, art therapy and music therapy.

World Federation of Music Therapy

The 14th World Congress of Music Therapy will take place in July 2014 in Vienna and Krems, Austria.