Lisa Summer

Lisa Summer, MCAT, MT-BC, FAMI

Qualifications

Trained at Hahnemann University (now Drexel U) with Cynthia Briggs and Paul Nolan; former Director of GIM Training at the Bonny Foundation for Music-Centered Therapies.Served the American Music Therapy Association on the National Assembly of Delegates, the Ethics Review Board, the Academic Program Review Committee; as editor of the American Association for Music Therapy International Report. Recipient of the 1999 New England AMTA Presidential Service Award and 1991 Southeastern AMTA Outstanding Research Achievements Award. Lectures in the U.S. and abroad.

Current Position

Professor/Director of Music Therapy at Anna Maria College undergraduate music therapy program and Institute for Music & Consciousness; part-time private practice

Contact

Anna Maria College; Music Therapy Program; Box 45; 50 Sunset Lane; Paxton, MA 01612-1198; 508-849-3454; lsummer@annamaria.edu; lsummer@hum.aau.dk.

PhD Research Study

Client Perspectives on the Music Experience in Music-Centered GIM

Supervisor: Lars Ole Bonde

I arrived at the specific topic and method of this study this past year through a simultaneous review of the transcripts of GIM sessions and an examination of six already published articles for my Senior Model Dissertation. From the review of session transcripts I got the idea for the subjects and treatment: to give advanced GIM clients a music-centered GIM session. (Music-centered GIM is a modification of the Bonny Method of GIM that alters two elements of BMGIM: music choice and guiding strategies.) From the examination of the six articles, I saw clearly my attempts to bridge psychodynamic, transpersonal, and music-centered theories in order to try to explain how music functions in the therapeutic process. These articles gave me (too) many ideas, but ultimately, I got from it the idea to focus solely on the music-portion of the session, and to look at the clients' experience of how music functions therapeutically (as opposed to my own ideas). These ideas came together into the following proposal: I will give an individual GIM session to six advanced GIM clients. The session will be audiotaped; and through a qualitative interview/tape review after the session, I will collect descriptive data from each client. I hope that the compilation of the descriptive data will yield a broad, multileveled perspective of the client experience during the music portion of an MCGIM session

References

Aigen, K. (2005). Music-centered music therapy. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers.

Bruscia. K. (1998a). An introduction to music psychotherapy. In K Bruscia (Ed.), The dynamics of music psychotherapy (pp. 1-16). Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers.

Bruscia, K. (2002a). The boundaries of guided imagery and music and the Bonny method. In K. Bruscia & D. Grocke (Eds), Guided imagery and music: The Bonny method and beyond (pp. 37-62). Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers.

Garrad, R. (2006). Music as therapy: A dialogical perspective. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers.

Grocke, D. (1999a). The music which underpins pivotal moments in GIM. In T. Wigram & J. DeBacker (Eds.), Clinical applications of music therapy in psychiatry (pp. 197-210). London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd.

Isenberg-Grzeda. (1999). Experiencing the music in GIM. In J. Hibben (Ed.), Inside music therapy: Client experiences. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers.

Keiser-Mardis, L.H. (n.d.). Guiding a trained musician in a GIM session. Unpublished training materials, Institute for Music and Imagery, Baltimore, MD.

Kenny, C.B. (1989). The field of play: A guide for the theory and practice of music therapy. Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Co.

Summer, L. (1989). Beginning Guiding Skills (Guiding 101). Unpublished training materials, Bonny Foundation, Salina, KS.

Wigram, T., Pedersen, I.N., & Bonde, L.O. (2002). A comprehensive guide to music therapy: Theory, clinical practice, research and training. London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS
2002
Music and Consciousness: The Evolution of Guided Imagery and Music. The Collected Works of Helen Bonny. As Editor; published by Barcelona Publishers; Gilsum, NH

1996
Music: The New Age Elixir, published by Prometheus Books; Amherst, NY

1988
Guided Imagery and Music in the Institutional Setting, MMB Music, Inc; St. Louis, MO. Second edition published, 1990; third edition published, 1998. Japanese translation by Kazuko Moroi, Ongaku No Tomo Sha Publisher, Japan, 1997

BOOK CHAPTERS
2006
Music Therapy: Techniques, Methods, and Models. Editor: Hyun Ju Chong. Chapter (Co-author with Hyun Ju Chong): The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music and Other Music and Imagery Techniques. Published in Korean language; Hakjisa Publishing Company

2002
Contemporary Voices in Music Therapy: Communication, Culture, and Community. Editors: Carolyn Kenny and Brynjulf Stige. Chapter: Historical Perspective. Published by Unipub Forlag/Akademika AS; Oslo, Norway. (Reprinted with permission from Voices: An International Online Forum for Music Therapy, Issue 1)

2002
Guided Imagery and Music: The Bonny Method and Beyond. Editors: Kenneth Bruscia and Denise Grocke. Chapter: Group Music and Imagery Therapy: An Emergent Music Therapy. Published by Barcelona Publishers; Gilsum, NH.

2000
Music Therapy Supervision. Editor: Michele Forinash. Chapter: Supervision of First-Time
Practica. Published by Barcelona Publishers; Gilsum, NH

1998
The Dynamics of Music Psychotherapy. Editor: Kenneth Bruscia. Chapter: The Pure Music Transference in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM). Barcelona Press; Gilsum, NH

1996
Listening, Playing and Creating: Essays on the Power of Sound. Editor: Carolyn Bereznak Kenny. Chapter: Unsound Medicine, SUNY Press, NY

ARTICLES
2001
Humble Beginnings. Voices: An International Online Forum for Music Therapy, Issue 1 (Inaugural issue)

1998
Considering the Future of Music Therapy. Arts in Psychotherapy, 24(1), 85-90.

1995
Melding Musical and Psychological Processes. Journal of the Association for Music and Imagery, 4, 37-48.

1994
Considering Classical Music for use in Psychiatric Music Therapy. Music Therapy Perspectives, 12(2), 130-133.

1992
Music: The Aesthetic Elixir. Journal of the Association for Music and Imagery, 1(1), 43-54.

1988
Coping with Mainstreamed Children: A Music Therapist's Perspective. The Tennessee Musician, 40(1), 27 28.
Comparing Genres of Music for Therapy. Music and Health Conference Proceedings; Eastern Kentucky U.

1985
Imagery and Music. Journal of Mental Imagery, 9(4), 83 90.

1981
Tuning Up In The Classroom With Music And Relaxation. Journal for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 6(1), 46 50.

1981
Guided Imagery and Music With The Elderly. Music Therapy, 1(1), 39 43.

JOURNAL EDITOR
2005
Guest Editorial Board Member, Music Therapy Perspectives, Volume 23(1) 2005. Special Issue: The Role of the Music Therapist (clinical journal of the) American Music Therapy Association

2001
Music Therapy Perspectives, 19(1), Special issue: "The Role of Music in the Music Therapy
Process," (clinical journal of the) American Music Therapy Association, Silver Spring, MD. As Co-
Editor, with Paul Nolan, MCAT, MT-BC

1990-
Music Therapy International Report, Volumes #7, 8, 9, and 10; Published by the American
1996 Association for Music Therapy, Ossining, NY

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Last updated on 6/4//07