KROEKER, JOEL. Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings. London & New York: Routledge. 2019. Pp. xiv + 187. Hbk. $140. Pbk. $40.95.

摘要

Joel Kroeker does a good deal of heavy lifting in this remarkable new book. While drawing on decades of experience doing music therapy, he adopts a style that recalls Jung's own pan-disciplinary approach, weaving together clinical vignettes, psychological research, analytic writing, neuropsychology and more to establish the place of music in the realm of psyche. Kroeker understands psyche as fundamentally musical and an analytic session as a stream of potently charged energy, a sort of musical tapestry. His descriptions of clinical process reflect the joy he finds in his work and he has a penchant for metaphor that is well-suited to the task of integrating analytic, scientific and musical realms.