Project 3
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Project in Adult Mental Health (2003-7)
Title: Dialogical singing as ‘musical companionship’: An exploration of the creative co-modulation of affect in music therapy with people living with psychosis.
Principal researcher: Dr Gary Ansdell
Research Team: Prof Jane Davidson, Dr Wendy Magee, Dr John Meehan & Simon Procter.
Project Outline: This project is a collaboration between three music therapy researchers, a consultant psychiatrist and a music psychologist. It is based on an area of common interest: the seeming ability of dialogical singing within a music therapy context to help positive affect modulation of patients in psychotic states of mind. The work aims to produce an exploratory qualitative phenomenological study of casework exhibiting the phenomenon, leading to a theoretical formulation alongside work in parallel fields of music psychology and neuropsychoanalysis. Such a descriptive formulation could lead to the design of a more experimental phase of the project.
Presentations:
- Ansdell, G (2005) ‘Music Therapy’s “present moments”: co-improvisation, implicit process and affect regulation’ .World Congress of Music Therapy, Brisbane.
- Ansdell, G. and Procter, S., Music therapy and the creative modulation of affect: an interdisciplinary inquiry’. University of Oslo, Seminar on Music and Emotion.
Publications:
An article on this project is being prepared for submission to the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.