Drumming through trauma: Music therapy with post-traumatic soldiers

Arts in Psychotherapy

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-48

  Bensimon, Moshe ^a   Amir, Dorit ^a   Wolf, Yuval ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Academic College of Law and Science   (Israel)

Author keywords

Drumming; Group music therapy; PTSD; Soldiers; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; INTIMACY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MUSIC THERAPY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RAGE; SELF CONTROL; SELF REPORT; SOLDIER; THERAPY EFFECT; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 38949196367     PISSN: 01974556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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