Between Couch and Piano by Gilbert J Rose

Between Couch and Piano by Gilbert J Rose

Why and how do music and abstract art pack such universal appeal? Why do they often have 'therapeutic' efficacy?

Between Couch and Piano links well-established psychoanalytic ideas with historical and neurological theory to help us begin to understand some of the reasons behind music's ubiquity and power.

Drawing on new psychoanalytic understanding as well as advances in neuroscience, this book sheds light on the role of the arts as stimulus, and as a key to creative awareness. Subjects covered include:

* music in relation to the trauma of loss
* music in connection with wholeness and the sense of identity
* the ability of music to jump-start normal feelings, motion and identity where these have been seemingly destroyed by neurological disease
* the theory of therapeutic efficacy of music and art.

Between Couch and Piano is a comprehensive overview that will be of interest to all those intrigued by the interrelation of psychoanalysis and the creative arts.

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Between Couch and Piano is an enjoyable read, both for its insights correlating psychoanalysis and art - especially music, which the author thinks is inherant to all art - and because of its jargon-free clarityThe book is at once a meditation on the power of music and the summary of a life's work in psychoanalysis. - Donald Kuspit, Professor of Art History and Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook

The developmental scope of his inquiry is no less that cradle-to-grave Dr Rose again reveals himself as both humanist and master clinician. - Stuart Feder, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Juilliard, New York

Gilbert J. Rose is in private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis and is a member of the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and Humanities at Yale.