Music and Altered States: Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy, and Addictions

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• Music and Altered States 1
• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Chapter 1 - Music, Consciousness and Altered States 9
• Chapter 2 - Music and Altered States of Consciousness: an Overview 15
• Chapter 3 - Music and Trance 38
• Chapter 4 - The Effects of Listening to Monotonous Drumming on Subjective Experiences 51
• Chapter 5 - Perception and Responses to Schemata in Different Cultures Western and Arab Music 60
• Chapter 6 - Music as Medicine: the Adyghs' Case 74
• Chapter 7 - Music and Drug-Induced Altered States of Consciousness 82
• Chapter 8 - The Role of Music in Healing with Hallucinogens Tribal and Western Studies 97
• Chapter 9 - Polyrhythms Supporting a Pharmacotherapy Music in the Iboga Initiation Ceremony in Gabon 101
• Chapter 10 - Dangerous Music Working with the Destructive and Healing Powers of Popular Music in the Treatment of Substance Abusers 125
• Chapter 11 - On a Journey to Somatic Memory Theoretical and Clinical Approaches for the Treatment of Traumatic Memories in Music Therapy-Based Drug Rehabilitation 140
• Chapter 12 - Music Therapy and Spirituality a Transcendental Understanding of Suffering 155
• Chapter 13 - Music Therapy and Spirituality and the Challenges of End-Stage Illness 172

• Music and Altered States 1
• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Chapter 1 - Music, Consciousness and Altered States 9
• Chapter 2 - Music and Altered States of Consciousness: an Overview 15
• Chapter 3 - Music and Trance 38
• Chapter 4 - The Effects of Listening to Monotonous Drumming on Subjective Experiences 51
• Chapter 5 - Perception and Responses to Schemata in Different Cultures Western and Arab Music 60
• Chapter 6 - Music as Medicine: the Adyghs' Case 74
• Chapter 7 - Music and Drug-Induced Altered States of Consciousness 82
• Chapter 8 - The Role of Music in Healing with Hallucinogens Tribal and Western Studies 97
• Chapter 9 - Polyrhythms Supporting a Pharmacotherapy Music in the Iboga Initiation Ceremony in Gabon 101
• Chapter 10 - Dangerous Music Working with the Destructive and Healing Powers of Popular Music in the Treatment of Substance Abusers 125
• Chapter 11 - On a Journey to Somatic Memory Theoretical and Clinical Approaches for the Treatment of Traumatic Memories in Music Therapy-Based Drug Rehabilitation 140
• Chapter 12 - Music Therapy and Spirituality a Transcendental Understanding of Suffering 155
• Chapter 13 - Music Therapy and Spirituality and the Challenges of End-Stage Illness 172
• References 184
• The Contributors 199
• Subject Index 202
• Author Index 206