Publications

In Resource-Oriented Music Therapy in Mental Health Care, Randi Rolvsjord offers a theoretical and empirical exploration of the idea that therapy is as much about stimulating clients’ strengths as it is about fixing problems or curing pathology.

In Invitation to Community Music Therapy,  Brynjulf Stige and Leif Edvard Aarø present the main perspectives and principles of community music therapy as it is practiced around the world. 

Musiken och jag er et resultat av prosjektet "musikk i menneskers liv", gjennomført av Thomas Bossius og Lars Lilliestam. Prosjektet retter fokus mot hverdagsbruken av musikk og stiller spørsmål om betydningen av musikk i voksne menneskers liv.

In this book, Even Ruud argues for the value of humanities as a basis for the theory and practice of music therapy. With the humanities he includes a broad range of academic disciplines, such as those from the social sciences as well as from philosophy, education, and not least, systematic musicology.

In this book several authors are represented. Next to the editor Brynjulf Stige, University of Bergen, Norway, Uni Health, GAMUT, Norway, we find Gary Ansdell, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, UK, Cochavit Elefant, University of Bergen, Norway, and Mercédès Pavlicevic, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy , UK, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

With his book "Musik og menneske" (; "Music and human beings") professor Lars Ole Bonde  at the Centre for music and Health, has written the first book in music psychology for scholars in a Nordic language. 

Den svenske antologien med tittelen Kulturen och hälsan er redigert av Gunnar Bjursell & Lotta Vahle Westerhäll.  Prof. II og leder for Senter for Musikk og Helse, Even Ruud bidrar.