Abstract
The increasing dominance of medically oriented metaphors for contemporary psychotherapy has led to a need for alternative images to sustain and enliven the psyche in its movement toward individuation. The authors present musical images both as psychological content and as guides for clinicalprocess, pointing toward a deeper and broader conception ofthe entire psychotherapeutic enterprise. Clinical applications are provided, including examples of creatively employing music in psychotherapy with individual adolescent and adult clients, couples and groups, and culturally diverse populations.
When an image [italics added] is realized-fully imagined as a living being other than myself-then it becomes a psychopompos, a guide with a soul... pregnant with significance and intention, a necessary angel [italics added] as it appears here and now and which teaches the hand to represent it, the ear to hear [italics added], and the heart how to respond. (Hillman, 1989, p. 56)
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