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Guided Imagery and Music - and Beyond?

Article in Nordic Journal of Music Therapy · July 2009

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Guided Imagery and Music - and

Beyond?
Lars Ole Bonde
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 EDITORIAL

Guided Imagery and Music - and Beyond?

- Editor's Introduction

During the last five years there has been an increasing interest in receptive music therapy models in the Nordic
countries, especially focusing on The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM - or more correctly:
BMGM). This journal has published several articles on GIM, and when the editor-in-chief invited me to edit a
special issue on GIM I thought it was a good idea, and the right time.
The result is in your hands now, and I think you will not only find extensive information on GIM issues -
research, clinical practice, training, history, developments - but also inspiration beyond the specific model. This is
due to the inventive research designs, the clinical relevance of the research, and the richness of the musical
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experiences described. Three of the research articles originate in the GIM research culture round professor Ken
Bruscia at Temple University (Philadelphia, US). Brian Adams has made a qualitative research study on how
GIM therapists define the transpersonal as experienced in GIM. Using a specific qualitative interview technique
(including the socalled rep-grid method) he has uncovered the dimensions and contents of the therapists'
transpersonal thinking. Anthony Meadows has also used the rep-grid interview technique in his investigation of
how gender is implicated in the constructs GIM therapists use to describe their clients. The important theme of
gender in GIM psychotherapy was discussed recently by Korlin and Wrangsjo (NJMT 10(2)), and Meadows
presents research results enabling a new awareness of how gender constructs may influence clinical work. In my
opinion this is important far beyond the borders of GIM - as the study shows that "male-like qualities" are seen as
less conducive to effective therapy than "female-like qualities". Research in the effectiveness of supervision is
rare, however, Darlene Brooks has studied how beginning GEVI-trainees experience observation in the common
live ('in-vivo') format of GIM Supervision. I am sure the results of this study are also relevant for supervisors from
other music therapy models. Torben Moe (DK) has reported from his Ph.d. research in earlier issues of NJMT. In
the new article he describes how the results of his qualitative research may lead to a theory of restitutional factors
in group music and imagery work with psychiatric patients. The research demonstrates and discusses how the
patients' imagery gradually develops, with important, music-assisted transformations of core images contributing
to a restitutional process.
Two clinical articles cover other areas of GIM in clinical practice. Denise Grocke (AUS) presents a case
study on how the re-imaging technique (developed by Ken Bruscia) can be applied to supervision. Mariann
Thoni (CH) adresses the important question, if and how GIM techniques can be applied to the 50 minutes
session so common in (pirvate) psychotherapeutiv practice. The classic text of this issue is of course by the
founder of the GIM model, Helen Lindquist Bonny. In her introduction to the reprint she underlines the importance
of an intuitive and embodied understanding of music, and the article presents a working model -"Body Listening"
or "The Affective-Intuitive Listening Mode" - relevant for all music therapists. Two new books are presented in
an essay by the editor. This may be a good point of departure for readers who are not so familiar with GIM. One
of the books is a selection of Helen Bonny's writings, covering the history of GIM in three decades, while the other
is a comprehensive and impressive presentation of the model as it has developed internationally, including theory,
research (quantitative as well as qualitative), clinical applications and professional issues. Finally Catlierine O 'Leary
(UK) has written a report from the 5th European GIM Conference in Krummendeich near Hamburg in September
this year. GIM was developed in the US. The report shows how GIM is developing in Europe, with international
collaboration and promising perspectives in many clinical areas. The special issue also informs the reader about
new resources and sources of information on Guided Imagery and Music.
I want to thank Helen Lindquist Bonny, Ken Bruscia and Denise Grocke for their encouragement and
support in the preparation of this special issue.
Aalborg, November 2002
Lars Ole Bonde
Nordic Journal of
102 Music Therapy, 2002, 11(2)

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