ABSTRACT
This chapter is a clinical example of listening to music chosen by the patient in word-based psychotherapy. It describes some of the significant therapeutic work done with Liz on her return to therapy after six months. The work will be presented on two levels. On the first level the author describes some of the content and the process of the therapy sessions. On the second level Liz tells her story through her experiences of music, both singing and listening. It will be a kind of contrapuntal exercise; a two-part invention involving an account of the uneven ups and downs of the process of therapy alongside Liz's meta-narrative of how her chosen music is intertwined as a therapeutic medium in which the authors were both involved. The author also provides a framework for feelings of closeness between the client and therapist and therapist and client.
