Past PhD Researchers


  • Inge Nygaard Defence 07Aldrige, Gudrun (1998): Die Entwicklung einer Melodie im Kontext Improvisatorischer Musiktherapie.
  • Baker, Felicity (2004): The effects of song singing om improvements in affective intonation of people with traumatic brain injury.
  • Bergström, Märith (2011): Music and Vibroacoustic Stimulation in People with Rett Syndrome –A Neurophysiological Study
  • Bonde, Lars Ole (2005): The Bonny Method of guided Imagery an Music (bmgim) with Cancer Survivors. A Psychological Study with focus on the Influence of BMGIM on Mood and Quality of Life.
  • De Backer, Jos (2005): Music and Psyshosis - the Transition from Sensorial Play to Musical formby psychotic Patients in a Music Therapeutic Process.
  • Elefant, Cochavit (2002): Enhancing Communication in Girls with Rett Syndrome through Songs in Music Therapy.
  • Garred, Rudy (2004): An Inquiry into the Role of Music and of Words in Creative Music Therapy.
  • Gold, Christian (2003): An analysis of long-term Music Therapy intervention with mentally ill Children and Adolescents in Austria
  • Hannibal, Niels J. (2001): Præverbal overføring i musikterapi - kvalitativ undersøgelse af overføringsprocesser i den musikalske interaktion.
  • Holck, Ulla (2002): "Kommunikalsk" sammenspil i musikterapi. Kvalitative videoanalyser af musikalske og gestiske interaktioner med børn med betydelige funktionsnedsættelser, herunder børn med autisme.
  • Hooper, Jeff (2010): The development of Criteria for defining sedative music, and its impact on adults with mild, moderate and severe intellectual disability and challenging behavior
  • Charlotte Lindvang's defenceJonsdottir, Valgerdur: (2011): Music-caring within the framework of early intervention. The lived experience of a group of mothers of young children with special needs, participating in a music therapy group
  • Kerem, Dikla (2009):The effect of music therapy on spontaneous communicative interactions of young children with cochlear implants
  • Kim, Jinah (2006): Joint attention and attunement in improvisational music therapy with autistic child.
  • Mahns, Wolfgang (1998): Symboldannelser i den analytiske musikterapi med børn. - Et kvalitativt studie i betydningen af musikalske improvisationer i musikterapi med skolebørn. (Written in German)
  • Moe, Torben (2001): Restituerende faktorer i gruppeterapi med psykiatriske patienter - baseret på en modifikation af Guided Imagery and Music (GIM).
  • Lindvang, Charlotte (2010): A Field of Resonant Learning. Self-experiential Training and the Development of Music Therapeutic Competencies. A Mixed Methods Investigation of Music Therapy Students’ Experiences and Professional’s evaluation of their own competencies
  • Music Therapy DefendeNygaard-Pedersen, Inge (2007): Counter transference in music therapy. A phenomenological study on counter-transference used as a clinical concept by music therapists working with musical improvisation in adult psychiatry.
  • Odell-Miller, Helen (2007): The practice of music therapy for adults with mental health problems: the relationship between diagnosis and clinical method.
  • Ridder, Hanne Mette (2003): Singing Dialogue. Music therapy with persons in advanced stages of dementia. A case study research design.
  • Rolvsjord, Randi (2007): "Blackbirds singing": An Explorational study
  • Schou, Karin (2008): A Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) of the Effect of Guided Relaxation with Music (GAM) on Anxiety, Pain, Mood, Satisfaction with Hospital Stay, and on Length of Hospitalisation in Cardiac Valve Surgery Patients.
  • Schwantes, Melody: (2011) Music Therapy’s Effects on Mexican Migrant Farmworkers’ Levels of Depression, Anxiety and Social Isolation: A Mixed Methods Randomized Control Trial Utilizing Participatory Action Research
  • Summer, Lisa (2009): Client Perspectives on the Music in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM)
  • Aasgaard, Trygve (2002): Song Creations by Children with Cancer - Process and Meaning.