ABSTRACT
Archetypal aspects of music as fundamental building blocks of behaviour, experience and individuation are explored and how these relate to the analytic matrix of communication, interrelation and self-understanding. Clinical illustrations are offered and evaluative aspects of how and when to shift to a musical mode within analysis are investigated. Contraindications are outlined, particularly in relation to trauma work, followed by an exploration of various approaches to working with non-verbal patients as well as non-verbal aspects of verbal patients. Analytic approaches to working musically with primitive psychological organizations are explored including non-verbal musical aspects such as cantabile sighs, rhythmic grunts and staccato vocables.
