EMTC research information

The following contains information about researchers in music therapy in Europe.

Not all countries have submitted information. The list will frequently be updated. The list is structured by the name (in english) of countries in alphabetical order.

This edition includes information from:
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain

Country: Austria
Name: Mag. Ingrid Rothbacher
Clinical areas(s): Disturbed children and juveniles, borderline, autism
Title of research: "Time - the Invented Structure" How conceptions of time determine educational and therapeutical processes
Level of research: Master of philosophy
Academic institution where registered: University of Vienna, Austria
Keywords: Time, therapy, education, rhythm

Country: Austria
Name: Mag. Annette Kallenbach
Clinical areas(s): Children and young people with various special needs
Title of research: Can music therapy be of any significance for therapeutic pedagogy? "A particular comparison of the basic ethos of D.J. Löwisch's therapeutic pedagogy and Orff Music Therapy"
Level of research: Master of philosophy
Academic institution where registered: University of Vienna, Austria
Keywords: special education, therapeutic pedagogy, Orff music therapy,
D.J. Löwisch, children and young people, special needs

Country: Austria
Name: Mag. Barbara Gabriel
Clinical areas(s): Psychoses, more severe disorders, personality disorders
Title of research: "Rhythm and its meaning for music therapy"
Level of research: Master of philosophy
Academic institution where registered: University of Innsbruck, Austria
Keywords: Rhythm, history of rhythm, music therapy

Country: Austria
Name: Mag. Johanna Wimmer-Illner
Clinical areas(s): Learning disabilities, unbalanced behaviour
Title of research: Specific effects of the individual music therapy with a child suffering from learning disabilities and unbalanced behaviour from the view of a single-case method research
Level of research: Master
Academic institution where registered: University of Vienna, Austria
Keywords: Individual music therapy, learning disabilities, unbalanced behaviour, single-case method design

Country: Austria/Germany/Denmark
Name: Christian Gold
Clinical areas(s): Child and adolescent psychiatry
Title of research: The effectiveness of long-term individual music therapy in outpatient treatment of mentally ill children and adolescents
Level of research: PhD
Academic institution where registered: Aalborg University, Denmark
Keywords: effectiveness, music therapy, children, adolescents, psychiatry

Country: Austria
Name: Dr. Dorothea Oberegelsbacher
Clinical areas(s): mental handicapped, secondary neurosis
Title of research: "Effects of group music therapy on social abilities of mentally handicapped women"
Level of research: Phd
Academic institution where registered: University of Vienna, Institute of Psychology, Austria
Keywords: Oligophrenia, Viennese school, social, field, quantitative, group-comparison

Country: Belgium
Name: Jos de Backer
Clinical areas(s): psychiatry
Title of research: the transition from sensorial impression to a musical form by psychotic patients in an music therapeutic proces
Level of research: PhD
Academic institution where registered: University of Aalborg, Denmark
Keywords: psychoanalytical oriented music therapy, sensoriel impression, musical and therapeutical proces, projective identification, reverie, containment

Country: Cyprus
Name: Dr. Anthi Agrotou
Clinical areas(s): learning difficulty, psychodynamic group music therapy, carer-training
Title of research: Psychodynamic group music therapy with profoundly learning disabled residents and their carer's: Developing a theory and practise for the realisation of therapeutic aims for residents and the acquirement of therapist'' skills by carers
Level of research: Doctoral
Academic institution where registered: The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. The research has been completed and the doctorate was awarded in 1988
Keywords: psychodynamic, groups, learning difficulty, carer-training

Country: Denmark
Name: Torben Moe
Clinical areas(s): Psychiatry
Title of research: Restitutimal factors in group music therapy with psychiatric patients based on modified model of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM)
Level of research: Doctoral
Academic institution where registered: Aalborg University, Denmark
Keywords: Psychiatry, GIM, restitutimal factors, qualitative research

Country: Denmark
Name: Ulla Holck
Clinical areas(s): Autism (and youth with psycho-social problems)
Title of research: Music therapy with children with autism (working title)
Level of research: PhD
Academic institution where registered: Aalborg University, Denmark
Keywords: autism, retardation, qualitative, interaction-themes, interaction-spirals

Country: Denmark
Name: Hanne Mette O. Ridder
Clinical areas(s): geriatrics, dementia
Title of research: Singing in individual music therapy with persons suffering from dementia
Level of research: PhD
Academic institution where registered: Aalborg University, Denmark
Keywords: Sining, dementia, individual therapy, interaction

Country: England/Denmark
Name: Dr. Tony Wigram
Clinical areas(s): Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Rett Syndrome
Title of research: Assessment and evaluation of improvisational music therapy for diagnosis and treatment of autistic spectrum disorders
Level of research: Post-doctoral
Academic institution where registered: Aalborg University, Denmark
Keywords: Assessment, improvisation, autism, quantitative, diagnosis

Country: Finland
Name: Marko Punkanen
Clinical areas(s): Music therapy in drugrehabilitation
Title of research: "On a journey to mind and emotions" The physioacoustic method and music therapy in drugrehabilitation
Level of research: MA
Academic institution where registered: University of Jyväskylä, Department of Musicology, Finland
Keywords: physioacoustic method, music therapy, drugrehabilitation, emotions, images

Country: Finland
Name: Esa Ala-Ruona
Clinical areas(s): psychiatry
Title of research: In-take assessment of psychiatric clients in music therapy. -What information is considered important by experienced clinicians and what are the main methods to get that information (working title)
Level of research: MA
Academic institution where registered: University of Jyväskylä, Department of Musicology, Finland
Keywords: In-take assessment, semi-structured interview, qualitative research, music therapy practise in psychiatry, descriptions of assessment methods and different approaches

Country: Finland
Name: Pirjo Nirkko
Clinical areas(s): Music therapy
Title of research: The initial asssessment of the child with developmental language disorder using functionally oriented music therapy (FMT)
Level of research: MA
Academic institution where registered: University of Jyväskylä, Department of Musicology, Finland
Keywords: Assessment, dysphasia, interview, music therapy

Country: Finland
Name: Sami Alanne
Clinical areas(s): Music psychotherapy, psychiatry
Title of research: The basics of phase specific music psychotherapy in the metascientific theretical and methodological point of view
Level of research: MA
Academic institution where registered: University of Jyväskylä, Department of Musicology, Finland
Keywords: psychotherapy, philosophy, theory, techniques, psychodynamics

Country: Germany
Name: Petra Jürgens
Clinical areas(s): Hyperactivity, autism, delayed development, challenging behaviour, mental and physical handicaps, sociophathic behaviour, psychogenic behaviour
Title of research: Diagnosis and treatment of hyperactive children and children with challenging behaviour with music therapy
Level of research: Pre-doctoral as a Music and Psycho Therapist
Academic institution where registered: Institute for Music Therapy, Berlin, Germany
Keywords: Assessment, improvisation, hyperactivity, autism, diagnosis, treatment, behavioural problems, mental and physical handicaps

Country: Germany
Name: Prof. Dr. Mechtild Jahn-Langenberg, Dipl-psych. Gabriele Dorrer
Clinical areas(s): Psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, psychiatry
Title of research: Qualitative music therapy research - Hermeneutical understanding of musical and psychodynamic processes. Development of specific methods, meaning of affect regulation for psychosomatic patients
Level of research: Diplom (MA), Doctor (PhD), Post Doctoral
Academic institution where registered: University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
Keywords: Qualitative research methods, analytical music therapy, improvisation, psychosomatic medicine, affect evaluation

Country: Germany
Name: Prof. Dr. Almut Seidel
Clinical areas(s): Psychooncology
Title of research: Gender aspects in the music therapy setting of psychooncology patients
Level of research: MA
Academic institution where registered: University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany
Keywords: Gender aspects, psychooncology, qualitative research

Country: Germany
Name: Thomas Wosch, M.A.
Clinical areas(s): psychotherapy
Title of research: Emotion and interaction in active music therapy - measurement of emotion-micro-processes of music therapy improvisations
Level of research: PhD
Academic institution where registered: Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Keywords: psychotherapy, music therapy dyad, process research, audio analysis, emotion psychology

Country: Germany
Name: Ulrike Haase
Clinical areas(s): Somatic and/or psychological disease as the origin of social psychological problems and disturbances and its analysis
Title of research: Analysis of the elements, effects and/or factors of music therapy and its realisation during the therapeutic process, the role and personality of the therapist
Level of research: Leading to PhD
Academic institution where registered: University contacts established
Keywords: Disease, social psychological consequences, elements, effects, factors, realisation, therapist personality

Country: Germany
Name: David Aldridge
Clinical areas(s): Research methods appropriate for the creative arts therapies.
Title of research: The performed body
Level of research: Postdoctoral
Academic institution where registered: University Witten
Keywords:Performance, qualitative, gesture

Country: Germany
Name: Gudrun Aldridge
Clinical areas(s): Psychosomatic
Title of research: The development of melody and rhythm in music therapy
Level of research: Postdoctoral
Academic institution where registered: University Witten
Keywords:Performance, qualitative, melody, rhythm. listening, interpretation

Country: Greece
Name: Sakalak Iliors
Clinical areas(s): Musician, clinical research
Title of research: The psycho-somatic diseases of professional musicians
Level of research: PhD
Academic institution where registered: Megavoy Monsihis, Athiyoy, Greece
Keywords: secret, talking, understanding, anxiety, communication

Country: Israel
Name: Cochavit Elefant
Clinical areas(s): Rett Syndrome
Title of research: Enhancing communication in Rett Syndrome through music therapy
Level of research: PhD
Academic institution where registered: Aalborg University, Denmark
Keywords: Rett Syndrome, communication, songs, individual therapy

Country: Italy
Name: Giovanni del Puente, Gerardo Manarolo
Clinical areas(s): Schizophrenia
Title of research: Listening in psychotic patients
Level of research: Post Doctoral
Academic institution where registered: Department of psychiatric Sciences of Genova, Italy
Keywords: Listening, empathy, emotions

Country: Italy
Name: Gianluigi di Franco
Clinical areas(s): Rehabilitation of deaf children
Title of research: Music therapy and speech therapy for early stage deaf children
Level of research: MA
Academic institution where registered: Audiology Institute, faculty of medicine, Napoli, Italy
Keywords: Deafness, children, improvisation, assessment, quantitative

Country: Italy
Name: Dr. Francesco Palmirotta, Dr. Franco Selleri
Clinical areas(s): Psychological and somatic diseases
Title of research: Research on the connection among music therapy, synaesthesia, oneiric and imaginative activity, and psychosomatic well-being
Level of research: Post-doctoral
Academic institution where registered: Bari University, Physics department: International University of Humanistic Ontosophy, D.t. Music Therapy, Bari, Italy
Keywords: music therapy, synaesthesia, psychosomatics, oneiric/imaginative activity

Country: Netherlands
Name: Annemiek Vink
Clinical areas(s): Dementia
Title of research: The effect of music therapy in reducing agitation in dementia
Level of research: PhD
Academic institution where registered: Rijksuniversiteit, Netherlands
Keywords: Non-pharmacological interventions, agitation, dementia, quantitative

Country: Netherlands
Name: Klaus Drieschner, Almut Pioch
Clinical areas(s): Psychiatry, mentally handicapped, children care
Title of research: Methods of music therapists as a function of the kind of clients, setting and goals of therapy
Level of research: MA
Academic institution where registered: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Keywords: Methods of music therapy, profession, survey, quantitative

Country: Norway
Name: Trygve Aasgaard
Clinical areas(s): Children with cancer - ecological practise
Title of research: Song creations by children with cancer - process and meaning
Level of research: PhD
Academic institution where registered: Aalborg University, Denmark
Keywords: cancer, children, songs, roles, ecology

Country: Spain
Name: Prof. Patricia L. Sabbatella
Clinical areas(s): psychiatric, schizophrenic adult clients
Title of research: Treatment effectiveness of music therapy with schizophrenic clients
Level of research: Post doctoral
Academic institution where registered: University of Cádiz, Spain (University Hospital)
Keywords: psychiatric, schizophrenic, vocal improvisation, treatment effectiveness, assessment, video analysis, rhythmic improvisation, adults, group dynamics, music interaction

Country: Spain
Name: Marina Elsa Diaz Huergo (AMDIPA)
Clinical areas(s): Oncology, handicapped, Alzheimer, geriatrics
Title of research: Music therapy applied to cancer patients
Level of research: PhD
Academic institution where registered: University of Oviedo Asturias, Spain
Keywords: isolation, depression, fears, improvisation and creativity