Events

World Congress of Music Therapy, Vancouver, BC, Canada

IAAMT board members will be giving three presentations


Analytical Music Therapy: The Model, Current Approaches and Future Possibilities

Juliane Kowski, Seung-A Kim Jung, Audrey Morse, & Maria Gonsalves Schimpf

Discussion of the music psychotherapy model: Analytical Music Therapy.Practitioners will share how AMT is currently practiced in inpatient psychiatric units and private practice, and how its theoretical underpinnings can be enhanced and adapted in the search of new paths of the integration of psychoanalytic principles in a music-centered therapeutic method.

Personal and Professional Growth during Self-Experience in Analytical MusicTherapy (AMT) Training

Juliane Kowski & Seung-A Kim Jung

Self-experience is part of the Analytical Music Therapy training requirements.The presenters will discuss how self-experience via tele-health or in person enhances personal and professional growth of music therapists during the pandemic. They will also emphasize the role of referential improvisation and share their experiences of working with trainees.


What’s the Feel of the Music: Using Countertransference in Analytical Music Therapy 

Audrey Morse

Mary Priestley, a creator of Analytical Music Therapy, incorporated elements of her experience of psychoanalysis into AMT theory. In this presentation, I will discuss the psychoanalytic principles of AMT and their relevance to current clinical practice, with particular emphasis on the role of countertransference in symbolic musical improvisation.