Communicative Musicality: Exploring the basis of human companionship

Communicative Musicality explores the intrinsic musical nature of human interaction. The theory of communicative musicality was developed from groundbreaking studies showing how in mother/infant communication there exist noticeable patterns of timing, pulse, voice timbre, and gesture. Without intending to, the exchange between a mother and her infant follow many of the rules of musical performance, including rhythm and timing. This is the first book to be devoted to this topic. In a collection of cutting-edge chapters, encompassing brain science, human evolution, psychology, acoustics and music performance, it focuses on the rhythm and sympathy of musical expression in human communication from infancy. It demonstrates how speaking and moving in rhythmic musical ways is the essential foundation for all forms of communication, even the most refined and technically elaborated, just as it is for parenting, good teaching, creative work in the arts, and therapy to help handicapped or emotionally distressed persons. A landmark in the literature, Communicative Musicality is a valuable text for all those in the fields of developmental, educational, and music psychology, as well as those in the field of music therapy.

Arts & Photography

Malloch, Stephen

Trevarthen, Colwyn

Music

Oxford University Press

This completely revised and substantially expanded new edition embraces new developments in this rapidly developing field. Every chapter has been rewritten with the addition of new material, and a new final chapter on `Putting the Pieces Together' reflects the authors' conviction that the complexity of autism means that many kinds of information are valuable and need to be taken into account in providing therapy or teaching for children with autism.Other chapters, updated from the first edition, include a description of the latest information on the findings of brain research (put into the context of the development of the human brain and its effect on communication in early childhood), and the contributions of music therapy and psychoanalysis. A very much enlarged chapter on educational provision for children with autism and Asperger's Syndrome provides information on the latest methods for improving the learning of these children, to give them the best possible preparation for a life of greater autonomy and maximum self-satisfaction in the pleasure of human company. New appendices summarise medical diagnostic systems, checklists and questionnaires for identifying autism, and the glossary has been considerably expanded. The wealth of up-to-date information provided will be invaluable not only for researchers and students but also for psychologists, teachers and other professionals, and parents, carers and family members in search of comprehensive and helpful information.

Children with Autism: Diagnosis and Intervention to Meet Their Needs

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Aitken, Kenneth

Robarts, Jacqueline

Papoudi, Despina

Mental Health

Jessica Kingsley

This third edition of the book was released after Jeremy Nahum's death and it is dedicated to the memory of three pioneers of the dialogue between psychoanalysis and infant research: Daniel Stern, Berry Brazelton and Jeremy Nahum. The book opens with Daniel S. Schechter’s Memories of Dan Stern and Karlen Lyons-Ruth’s Tribute to Jeremy Nahum. After the introduction written by the editor, Giuseppe Leo, the development of infant research methodologies is illustrated by the contribution written by Beatrice Beebe, whose ‘journey’ leads us through the ‘creating’ of a discipline with its creators, her traveling companions, such as Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe and many others. Trevarthen’s chapter is a discussion of his work with T. Berry Brazelton. Tronick’s contribution focuses on mother-infant dyad as well as on analyst-patient one, conceived as open dynamic systems, capable of meaning making, in which coherence is at best imperfect, and coordination alternates with mismatching. Karlen Lyons-Ruth and Jeremy Nahum, two of the members of the Boston Change Process Study Group, focus on the representational world of the mother, particularly on the assessment of mother’s representation of role-confusion in her relation with her child.

INFANT RESEARCH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: Frenis Zero Press

Beebe, Beatrice

Schechter, Daniel

Tronick, Edward

Leo, Giuseppe

Lyons-Ruth, Karlen

Nahum, Jeremy

Psychology & Counseling

Frenis Zero

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