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Individuals with physical, emotional, and cognitive difficulties find
that music therapy opens new channels of communication and contact. 
Music
as therapy brings joy, beauty, a smile and laughter as well as a calming
and nurturing effect to some clients, while providing an outlet for frustrations
for others. It helps to activate and enhance the memory and quality of
life for elderly clients.
Music therapists work closely with and support the goals and objectives of psychologists, social workers, counselors, special education and speech, occupational and physical therapists. It is a creative, interactive, clinical, educational and rehabilitative treatment approach.
Music Therapy is an effective form of psychotherapy. It offers freedom of exploration and a new sense of self discovery as clients give sound and energy to emotions and issues that may be painful, confused or blocked. Each client is unique in terms of their psychological issues and special needs. Music therapy can reach clients that are resistant or relatively unresponsive to other treatment approaches.
Alan Wittenberg, Certified Music Therapist, provides individual and group sessions to clients of all ages at the Surry Music Therapy Center as well as schools, nursing homes, day and residential programs and hospitals throughout Maine. Alan also does conference presentations and training in Japan and Russia.
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MUSIC touches us when words cannot. It is instinctive and intuitive in all of us, regardless of disability. It reflects who we are and helps us to realize who we can be.
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Alan Wittenberg thinks so. Wittenberg believes music therapy can create pathways into the consciousness that other therapies cannot travel. The director of_ the Surry Music Therapy Center and founder of music therapy centers in Russia and Japan contends that musical expression can reach body, mind and spirit, awakening communication and cognitive skills. Therapy also can help, he says, with impulse control and physical development. "Music therapy can be effective when other forms of treatment are not." Just back from several weeks in Japan, Wittenberg gave presentations at several venues, listing the varied applications of music therapy. Music therapy can calm children in hospital settings, he said, enhance an elderly person's quality of life and help someone recovering from a stroke address issues of memory loss, speech and mobility. Though music may well be the universal language, Wittenberg said he tailors his piano performances to the national culture. In Japan, where a five note scale is the norm, Wittenberg adapts accordingly. But, he said, even "Alouette" would strike a familiar chord in Asia because wherever you are, rhythm is rhythm. Wittenberg said he has been visiting Japan for 26 years, since a 1983 pilgrimage as a Zen Buddhist student of Walter Nowick of Surry. He notes that music therapy is widely recognized and used in the United States, but is hardly "The Shriners Children's Hospital in Boston has a music therapy department," he observes. Wittenberg is teaching two upcoming courses, one online this spring semester with the University of Maine System (MUS298) and one that takes place'during winter term"'(Dec. 28 - Jan. I8) at Husson (HU299). |
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ALAN WITTENBERG, M.A., CMT
Certified Music Therapist, American Music Therapy Association
8 Cross Road, Surry, Maine 04684 USA
Tel. / Fax: 207-667-1308
E-mail: alan@surrymusictherapy.com