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Blog post

Music and sleep disorders

Forced mental health care

Travel letter from Katowice

Listening to music reduces anxiety

Vitality

Music therapy and neuroimperialism

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The virtuoso music therapist

What are ChatGP3, AIChat and Bing saying about music therapy and music therapists?

From protomusicality to teleomusicality

Book reviews

Katrina Skewes McFerran og Carol Barbara Lotter (2024). The Psychology of Music Listening for Health and Wellbeing Professionals. 26.9.24  

Kerry Devlin, Kyurim Kang, and Alexander Pantelyat (eds.) 2023. Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions in Neurology: Perspectives on Research and Practice.

Lars Elling: At the gate to the forest of silence. A story about friendship, art and the disobedient brain.

Alfred Fidjestøl: Norwegian Academy of Music. Fifty years of notes, unnotaries and footnotes.

Conversation with Christine Wilhelmsen in the Musikkterapipodden

Conversation with Musikknerdene about background music and soundscape

Conversation with Torgny Amdam about Music and identity in TONO's podcast series

Photo gallery

Street art

Landscapes and places

Ice feather

Human beings

Animals

Books and articles

Photo: Ingvald Bergsagel

My name is Even Ruud and in this blog I will deal with literature from music therapy, music psychology and other topics from musicology. I am professor emeritus from the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Academy of Music and am trained as a piano teacher, music therapist, musicologist and psychologist. Music therapy is a complex subject and relies on research in a number of areas such as psychology, musicology, philosophy, medicine and more. With this blog, I want to deal with literature that is relevant to music therapy and convey this to anyone who might be interested. Book reviews and comments, reflection and ideas will be central to these pages. I will also illustrate the text with my own photos.

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