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[edit] External Links
The link for the homepage of the New England Region of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) is a subsection of The American Music Therapy Association and as such this link belongs on The AMTA wiki page, not the main Music Therapy page. Two links to the same oragnization is unnessesary, especially since the New England Region's website offers no new or unique information about Music Therapy that isn't already on the AMTA's web site. I am removing the link because ["Wikipedia is not a Directory"] That's why I am removing this link.Glorifiedmonkey13 (talk) 14:12, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
There is now 8 additional links in the external links section for regional chapters of the American Music Therapy Association (i.e. Southwestern, Southern, Northwestern, Western, etc). So currently the American Music Therapy Association has 9 different external links on this page. These links belong on the American Music Therapy Association Wiki page, not on the main Music Therapy page. It is against Wikipedia policy for the American Music Therapy Association to use the Music Therapy page as a directory for their web sites and services (["Wikipedia is not a Directory"]). One link to their site is plenty, and I am removing the additional regional links. Please explain if you disagree, thank you. Glorifiedmonkey13 (talk) 09:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Other countries
any info on other countries? Can anything be said in general about music therapy in the world today? -- Tarquin 23:17 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)
- Voices is an online international journal where you can read articles have mediated and unmediated discussions about music therapy. There are many notable music therapists outside of the U.S.. Aldridge around Europe, Benzon from spain, and Nordoff-Robbins institute in London. I have met other music therapists from Australia, Argentina, China, Japan, Korea, and the Middle east. Interestingly enough there are quite a few famous people such as Dr. Oliver Sacks, M.D. that have been a recipients of music therapy and have written about it. Dr. Sacks who wrote the book Awakenings, recieved music therapy to learn how to walk after an accident. Later he testified before congress. When you watch the movie Shine, you will see the main character look into the window of a music therapy room in an Australian Mental Hospital. Medical professionals are still amazed at its results and have a hard time explaining its success even after trying other treatments. --Jim Merrell, April 24, 2005
- I'd like to agree with Tarquin. This is very Amero-centric. There are active music therapy communities across Europe, all the English-speaking world, South America and even Iran. It would also be worth making the links between Music therapy and traditional disciplines which combined music and healing. Admittedly these are very different things, but this could be made clear, as for example, June Tillman-Boyce has done in Music and Healing: The Wounds that Sing (Jessica Kingsley publishers)
- Suggestion:
- Paragraphs 5-8 should form a distinct section, Music Therapy in the United States, to be followed initially by a section, Music Therapy Outside the U.S., to be expanded by people in various countries into more sections. If I get time I'll do the U.K. one myself, but don't hold your breath (music therapy encourages you to breathe naturally)
- --Gwaka Lumpa, December 15th, 2005
[edit] Established?
Until I read this article, I feel I had a preconception that music therapy wasn't an established medical field, putting it an "iffy" category. Is this a common misconception? If so, maybe it should be addressed.--Josh Holbrook, March 21 2005
- In the 1970s, Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital (see the Google hits for
- about 54,000 for "Larue D. Carter " OR "Larue Carter "
- ) was the most advanced mental hospital in Indiana (and may still well be). It had music therapy, recreational therapy, and occupational therapy departments, which all gave me the impression of having a status and theoretical basis closely related to that of milieu therapy (which was however less compartmentalized, being implemented ward by ward and patient by patient).
- Hmm, no WP article, but re its mainstream legitimacy, also note
- about 65,000 for "milieu therapy"
- and answers.com's extract from McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms:
- milieu therapy
- (psychology) The treatment of mental disorder or maladjustment by making substantial changes in a patient's immediate life circumstances and environment in a way that will enhance the effectiveness of other forms of therapy. Also known as situation therapy.
- and the fact that The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary, cited on the same answers.com page, includes a (briefer) def'n.
--Jerzy•t 15:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merging the two pages
The two pages should not be merged, though one might link to another, they are not the same thing. Pretty good page on music therapy though.
no way the two are very diffrent doc steven bowes
- I agree with Steven. Music therapy, at least as practiced in the UK, is very different from what is being described here. Gwaka Lumpa 10:43, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of music therapists needed
How about having a list of music therapists, such as Steven Halpern or Jill Purce, to append this page? Jill Purce is the wife of Rupert Sheldrake, and has made some important contributions to this field which arguably merit her having her own article. ACEO 10:55, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- I Undo'd the addn of two apparently unsupportable claims of someone being "important" to the field. One of them may be notable as a musician, in contrast to his GTest (emphasis & lk added by Jerzy)
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- 42 for "John Beltzer" therapy
- but it's abusive (besides probably just plain false) to throw him on this list without offering any evidence.
--Jerzy•t 14:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Linkspam
I deleted most of the external links on this page because Wikipedia is neither a repository of links nor a directory. Links designed to call attention to a provider of music therapy are not appropriate even if the page also contains information about music therapy.--FreeKresge 04:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
RE:Linkspam - (April 9, 2008) I am going to clean up the links again as they have become filled with commercial links that add nothing to the page. Including links to foreign language sites that add nothing to the page or reader other then but promoting products. (April 9, 2008) Glorifiedmonkey13 (talk) 04:46, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Research Section
I also think the reference to Michael J. Crawford's research on schizophrenia is out of place in the 'Music Therapy in UK' section. It says "once again found"... when was the first time? There should be a section on research, if anyone want to put it together. Also this link seems to be mainly promoting one research
As a board-certified music therapist in the U.S., I would like to be of help in providing information about music therapy research. I am a guest editor on the website, Musical Inspirations, that offers informative articles about music and healing. I think perhaps a link to that website will be useful to readers. For example, see: http://musicalinspirations.com/data/html/music-therapy/34.cgi Please let me know how to be of help with this discussion. ````
[edit] therapy
i found this site as a good breafe outline on the music therapy.
