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Singing is an experience involving deepened breathing, mobilized
body movement, heightened sensing, intense emotional expression
and sustained contact with the environment through sound and breath;
and singing lessons may provide a rich relational field between
singing teacher and student...What I hope to show in this paper
is how singing lessons may have profoundly therapeutic effects.
With case illustrations, I draw upon my work as both a Gestalt therapist
and a singing teacher...My intent is to illustrate a creative way
of working with expressive activity which is grounded in Gestalt
therapy theoretical concepts...
Case vignettes are organized under the following headings:
Field...
Contacting through gaze...
Support...
Anxiety and breathing...
Figure/ground...
Personality functioning...
Confluence...
Awareness...
Self...
Bringing background forward...
Creative adjustment...
....studying and teaching singing, when undertaken as a series of
experiments, is very like the practice of Gestalt therapy.
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