Dr. Miller's new book, Bio-Guided Music Therapy was released in June 2011.

Bio-Guided Music Therapy explores the clinical integration of music and biofeedback, providing the practitioner with a rationale, historical context and detailed step-by-step instructions for implementing real-time physiological data driven music therapy.

This practical guide introduces the fundamental principles of biofeedback and explores the use of music therapy interventions in the context of achieving skills in self-regulation of physiological response. The book looks at the primary modalities of biofeedback, in conjunction with the assignment of digitally sampled musical voices to specific body functions. Additional music therapy interventions discussed include guided imagery to music, toning, mantra meditation, drumming and improvisation. We see how physiological data taken in the moment and combined with music therapy techniques, may be successfully applied to the treatment of stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dementia, migraine, ADHD and addictions.

Instructive and accessible, this book will prove an essential resource for students and practitioners of music therapy, biofeedback practitioners, social workers, psychologists and healing arts professionals.

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“I warmly recommend this book not only to professionals but also to
those interested in discovering the ultimate frontiers of research in music
and medicine.”
—Dr. Alexander J. Graur, PhD, MT-BC, President,
Medicamus Italiana Torino, Italy

“In this century of science and music, music therapists are moving toward
in-depth understanding of music’s impact on physiologic function. Dr.
Miller’s brilliant and carefully researched book is most timely! Through
astute and clear descriptions of state-of-the-art research and clinical work
with sample cases, Dr. Miller explains how biofeedback techniques,
combined with targeted music-therapy interventions, can result in
physiological, psychological and cognitive rehabilitation. The information
provides insight into how neurologic feedback training incorporating
music-therapy approaches can attain positive adaptations in a variety of
diagnosed individuals. This book is an important contribution to the
field.”
—Dr. Dorita S. Berger, PhD, MT-BC, LCAT, clinician and
author of Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and the
Autistic Child and The Music Effect, Connecticut, USA

“Dr. Eric B. Miller is a pioneer in the documented core of music’s role in
wellness. Bio-Guided Music Therapy provides students, practitioners and
musicians important insight into the energetic power of sound, harmony
and music making.”
—Don Campbell, author of Healing at the Speed of
Sound and The Mozart Effect, Virginia, USA

“Dr. Eric Miller has done an outstanding job of synthesizing the fields of
biofeedback, physiology and other biomedical techniques as they relate
to music therapy, and provides an excellent model for integrating these
into clinical practice for such issues as ADHD, addictions and pain.”
—Concetta M. Tomaino, DA, MT-BC, LCAT, Executive Director/Co-Founder,
Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, and Senior Vice President, Music
Therapy Services, Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, New York, USA

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JKP and Authors attend the World Congress of Music Therapy in Seoul, South Korea

11 July 2011

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