Ep 29 Martin Lawes

In Episode 29. Luke talks to music therapist and GIM
practitioner/trainer Martin Lawes.


Martin qualified as a music therapist in 1999. Since then his
work has been in special needs education, in adult mental health
(including eating disorders, acute and forensic psychiatry) and
in palliative care. He is a BAMT registered supervisor and has
been visiting lecturer on several of the music therapy MA
trainings.


Martin is additionally qualified in Guided Imagery and Music,
GIM. He is a former chair of both the Education and Training
Committee, and the board of the European Association of Music and
Imagery, EAMI. Martin is also an approved GIM trainer and founder
of the London based Integrative GIM Training Programme which is
delivered by a team of experienced GIM trainers and researchers
from the UK, Europe and the US. Martin’s aspiration is that GIM
will gradually become as established in UK music therapy as it is
in some other European countries, with therapists equipped to use
a range of research-based GIM and simpler Music and Imagery, or
MI methods, that complement their existing ways of working and
extend what they have to offer clients.


Martin has published a number of articles. One is about the
evaluation of music therapy with children with autism. Others are
about the application of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking to
music therapy and about GIM. Martin currently has an article in
press in the BJMT about the therapist’s use of reverie, or
‘dreaming in music’ as he calls it, in improvisation-based music
therapy.


Luke and Martin talk about the music experience which led Martin
to train in music therapy, about GIM and MI, and about ‘dreaming
in music’.


Information about GIM


Information about GIM and training in it can be found at:
www.integrativegim.org


Publications


Lawes M (2001) Aesthetic Experience and the Healing Process: The
story of a Therapist's Rediscovery of Music. British Journal of
Music Therapy, 15(1).


Lawes M (2002) Beauty, Emotion and Music: Aesthetic Encounter in
the Therapeutic Process. In J. Fachner & D. Aldridge (Eds.),
Dialogue and Debate - Conference Proceedings of the 10th World
Congress on Music Therapy, Oxford, England (pp. 1040-1068).
Witten, Germany: MusicTherapyWorld.Net. Available at:
http://www.wfmt.info/WFMT/2011_World_Congress_files/Proceedings%20Oxford_2002.pdf


Lawes M (2012) Reporting on outcomes: An adaptation of the
‘AQR-instrument’ used to evaluate music therapy in autism.
Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, 4(2),
110-120. Available at:
http://approaches.gr/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Approaches_422012_Lawes_Article.pdf


Lawes M (2013) Meaning, dreaming, relating and levels of
consciousness in music psychotherapy: a psychoanalytic,
developmental and transpersonal paradigm. Journal of Music and
Meaning, 11:  85-132. Available at:
http://www.musicandmeaning.net/articles/JMM11/LawesJMM11.pdf
 


Lawes M (2016) Perspectives on the real, the imaginary and the
music in GIM. Journal of the Association for Music and Imagery,
15, pp. 93-124.


Lawes M (2017) Music as dynamic experience of unfolding wholeness
in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM): A psychoanalytic, musical,
transpersonal and trans-scientific paradigm. Approaches: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, Special Issue 9(2):
275-299. Available at:
http://approaches.gr/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/8-Approaches-9-2-2017-lawes-a20171222.pdf


Lawes M (in press) On Improvisation as Dreaming and the
Therapist’s Authentic use of Self in Music Therapy. British
Journal of Music Therapy.