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From A&R man to assistant psychologist
... study history and economics. I was trying to avoid doing music, since my family was so involved with it. But I was drawn in and took a music degree. My rebellion failed. My degree was in classical music – I wrote my long essay on the use of...
John Booth Davies 1944-2017
... years, was a psychologist with a wide range of interests: music, addiction, human factors and safety. He was born near ... Big Band for many years. His first book T he Psychology of Music (1978) dealt largely with the cognitive psychology of music...
‘See the great picture, and don’t get lost in the daily tasks’
... or Kirill Petrenko). It is one of my favourite pieces of music. I am a music lover, and most activities in my life have a music track. One alternative career path you may have chosen ...
'It is diverse brains and the consequent breadth of talents and abilities that are pivotal to our future'
... for boys, with some unqualified teaching in English and music, as the men were being called up into the Forces, ... Meanwhile I received a scholarship to Brighton School of Music and trained to be a singer. Peer pressure then led me ...
The rules of unruliness
... if you know, but one of the organising themes of the non-music content at this festival is ‘Revolution’. I think ... if you haven’t got anything better to do?! There’s music on, there’s comedy on, there’s cabaret on, and ... India , we’ve looked at football...
Speaking the language of learning
... CBT will be of less use than techniques such as art and music therapy. I am on the lookout all the time for ... job as a play worker for the NHS in Reading and, like music therapists, play therapists are much more in demand in ...
Zander Wedderburn 1935-2017
... Presbyterian Church, and were both keen on folk music. Zander played the guitar and sang with a deep voice at ...
A broad experience
... back home, they go for walks, sip some wine, and listen to music. ‘We like to enjoy the experience and just be in the ...
He’s a jolly good Fellow
... diverse nature of the area: they include Fellows in music therapy, recreation and leisure and nursing as well as ...
The truth we rarely hear: From mirror to prism
... We pushed a few high-top tables together, and with loud music blaring in the background, they began to reminisce. I ...
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... to sit back, play tennis and golf and listen to the soul music he loves. But he’s enthusiastic about the future of ...
The future of thinking differently
... remember a word. It helps with maths, too.’ Listening to music also helps her. In class, she finds it easier to focus on what the teacher is saying when she has classical music playing in an earbud in one ear. Her mother lobbied for ...
‘The fact that we have access to so many different opinions is driving us to believe that we’re in information bubbles’
... educated guesses at what users will like based on the music taste of similar users, as well as their own listening ...
Stephen Morley 1950-2017
... family and proud of his children. He was passionate about music and birds – he apparently had a tough time choosing ...
A manifesto for psychological health and wellbeing
... through, new scholars who are looking at the evidence for music, creative writing, visual arts, theatre, dance, you ...
Minds run free
... he finds it therapeutic. If he’s not listening to rock music, he’ll use the time to pray or think. ...
The downsides of positivity
... grade on the exam in the final moments before facing the music felt better than students who overshot in their ...
Kinship and loss
... she was going to become. She moved when I played certain music or watched certain movies. So I felt already that I ...
‘Adventure is an important part of being human’
... also evoked when watching YouTube videos with heavy rock music – the experience was spoken about as relaxing, free, ...
Can we think ourselves well?
... whether this ritual – the drink, the pill, the music – has the power to shape his body’s response to his ...
Forgiveness
... off in traffic by a harried mother toting several kids to music lessons to being intentionally run off the road by a ...
Who makes a good companion?
... • Musical intelligence – having the ability to make music. There is very limited evidence of musical intelligence ...
The power of the arts
... a single cultural output such as a book or a piece of music? And as with social prescribing, the outcome measures ...