Music Therapy Studio

Rick Soshensky, MA, LCAT, MT-BC, NRMT, is a nationally known music therapist. His work has been featured in The New York Times, National Public Radio, and Fox Radio. He operates Hudson Valley Creative Arts Therapy Studio and teaches in the music therapy departments at SUNY New Paltz and Molloy College. His website is https://themusictherapystudio.com/.

• Foreword by Jon SamsonPrefacePart I: Music Therapy Studio: The FoundationIntroduction: Welcome to the StudioAlan: A Search for CompetenceWhat Makes It Therapy?Connection, Communication, ExpansionUnconditional AcceptanceCommitmentGeneralizationChapter 1: My Journey into Music TherapyWhat is the Relationship Between “Typical” Musicianship and Music Therapy? Oh, Yeah, My Sister Has a Relaxing Music App: Misunderstanding Music Therapy Backstory: So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll StarParadigm Shift: My Discovery of Music TherapyBack to School: Well, Not So FastWilliam: Unforgettable Clinician: Who, Me? Life is DukkhaChapter 2: Music Therapy StudioActivities of Musicians Which Way Do We GoDigging the WellThe Four Experiential States of Music TherapyBeyond EntertainmentThe Socio-Political Impetus of Music as TherapyLove Me for Who I AmGenius, Prophet, PatientDaniel: Heaven and EarthThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.Noel: To Make a Better World for All to See Chapter 3: Sacred Space The Music RoomHolding SpaceInteractive SpaceAkashaChapter 4: Lessons from Nordoff-Robbins The Music Child The Musical Form Itself is the InterventionWe Are Here to Work Indexing and Assessment MutualityThe Archetypal Aspects of Music Changes in Musical Expression are Seen as Significant Changes in Self Living in the Creative Now A New Moral RealityThomas: Being in Music Part II: Music Therapy Studio: The FrameworkChapter 5: Instruction and PracticePractice, Practice, Practice. Then Forget All That and Just WailSusannah: Facing the Challenges of AutismBioNeuro Music Therapy We All Learn from Each Other James: Broken Brain Chapter 6: JammingImprovisation: Playing Without MemoryDavid: The Healing Power of Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” Owen: A Beautiful Connection Idiom and Archetype Facilitating Risky Interaction: Giving Permission to Express What’s ThereClinical Aesthetics: The Systems Model of CreativityDanielle: Not So Tough Chapter 7: Composing“Songwriting? What Do I Know About Songwriting?”JeanMarie: FamilySongs as Personal MythologyGeorge: SpeechlessChapter 8: Performing & RecordingWhat You Say Here, Stays Here. What You Play Here Well, That Might Go SomewhereHey Gang, Let’s Put On a Show!Public Expression as Therapy: Essential QuestionsCommunity Music Therapy Director/Producer/Music Therapist: Whose Work is This, Anyway? Darryl: I Was AloneTogether We Dream - Together We Heal Some Benefits of a Recording Project in a Post-Acute Rehab Setting We Can (Hopefully) All Agree UponCensorshipJohn: Set Me Free!Community Reverberations Chapter 9: GoalsRonnie: Hello, GoodbyeThere is No Such Thing as Resistance, Only Imperfect CommunicationWhat Are We Looking For? Therapist - 1, Client - 0: Documenting Measurable Behavior. The Elements of Well-Being Flow and the Elements of Well-Being Documenting the Elements of Well-Being Adapting the Elements of Well-BeingIf You Don't Know Where You're Going, You Might Not Get There Chapter 10: Ritual The Children’s Performance Group: Redefining ExpectationsGod Bless America: It Almost Didn’t Happen That Way. Music Contains Magic Clinical Paradigm Shift Part III: Music Therapy Studio: The PhilosophyChapter 11: TranscendanceThe Famous Double Slit ExperimentAnd That’s Not AllFar Out, Man But What Does This Have to Do with Music Therapy?Attractor PatternsDavid Hawkins’s Levels of Consciousness I’m Picking Up Good Vibrations: Practical ApplicationsExpression vs. Depression: Shifting the Directionality of Life EnergyThe Transcendence of Individual Identity: The Whole Universe is SingingRose: Set the Artist FreeChapter 12: Curing Versus HealingAkashic Records: Nothing is Irrevocably Lost but Everything is Irrevocably StoredYou Are the Universe Die and Be AgainNo Axe to GrindCan I Change All the Darkness and Misery in the World? No. Can I Bring Music Into Those Places? YesAnd That's All I Have to Say About ThatReferences

Rick Soshensky's book, The Music Therapy Studio: Empowering the Soul's Truth, is a multifaceted text that delivers the author's perspectives on the conceptual Music Therapy Studio (synonymous for his approach to music therapy), as developed throughout his prolonged experiences in clinical practice and foundations as a musician. Grounded in music-centered and humanistic orientations, Soshensky explores numerous diversely situated case studies supporting the latent potential in both musical and human development.