ABSTRACT
This chapter is an analysis of Liz's choices of music listened to in her psychotherapy sessions. The centrality of communicative musicality will be seen in the use of Malloch's categories of pulse, quality and narrative in the therapeutic engagement. Communicative musicality is also said to be present in the interpersonal psychotherapeutic engagement when the therapist's and patient's relationship seems to flow together and attune. Nocker-Ribaupierre writes that this bridge from the auditory intra-uterine experience of the foetus to being an infant in the outside world is understood on several levels for both mother and infant. The quality or flow of the music was more varied and alive. After listening to the musical passage the authors' words together were gentle and Liz's voice was softer than usual and became hesitant. This way of listening to music within the consulting room engages in particular with right brain feeling responses.
