Jazz and Psychotherapy

Blending the insights of musicians and psychologists from D.W. Winnicott to Gregory Bateson to Ornette Coleman, Jazz and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking exploration of improvisation that reveals its potential to transform our experience of ourselves and the challenges we face as a species.

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Simeon Alev is a psychotherapist, a visual artist, a poet and a musician. He earned his doctorate at York University and completed his professional training at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto.

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Jazz and Psychotherapy:

Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Improvisation, Culture, and Play

2 Infancy, Childhood, and Transitional Phenomena

3 Intersubjectivity and the Unconscious

4 Discovering Voice

5 Free Association and Improvisational Space

6 Complexity, Spontaneity, and Authenticity

7 Musical Dynamics of Early Development

8 Symbolization and Metaphor

9 Loops and Spirals

10 Order and Disorder

11 Shifting Paradigms

12 The Self in an Evolving World

References

Bibliography

Index