ABSTRACT
The present chapter and Chapters 14 and 15 address three concerns that are not always linked in the professional literature: the musical aspects of mother–infant interaction and analogs in music therapy, the proper role of brain science in music therapy, and evolutionary perspectives on the nature of music and the implications for music therapy. While the first two topics are of interest in their own right for music therapists, they are also invoked in arguments for the adaptive value of music in evolutionary theory and its implications for music therapy theory.
