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Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions we make in
our lifetime. Career choice is more than working to earn a living
but also an important window into how we identify and feel about
ourselves. There are multiple issues involved in every career
choice, particularly in the pursuit of a career in music
performance. Influenced by her hybrid background in music
performance, psychology, and psychoanalysis, Julie Jaffee Nagel
addresses the joys and challenges of career choice in music, with a
specific focus upon the classical performing musician. She
addresses a wide range of pressing topics related to such a career
choice at a time when jobs and income for musicians are diminishing
and COVID-19 has had a monumental, long-term impact on the arts.
This includes feelings of burnout, career change and redirection,
the need for self-care, mental health issues related to the lack of
jobs and income, and the oftentimes crippling standards of
professional performing musicians. In addition, Nagel also points
to potential opportunities and advocates new roles for musicians in
the wake of a transformed music industry and society. Despite the
numerous challenges performing musicians face in their careers,
music can play a powerful role in mental life and society, helping
us cope with the ravages and losses of the pandemic and other
important events, and this can serve as much inspiration and
reinvigorate professional musicians questioning the purpose of
their career. All of these themes are developed through stories,
clinical examples, anecdotes, research data, and personal
reflection.
Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions we make in
our lifetime. Career choice is more than working to earn a living
but also an important window into how we identify and feel about
ourselves. There are multiple issues involved in every career
choice, particularly in the pursuit of a career in music
performance. Influenced by her hybrid background in music
performance, psychology, and psychoanalysis, Julie Jaffee Nagel
addresses the joys and challenges of career choice in music, with a
specific focus upon the classical performing musician. She
addresses a wide range of pressing topics related to such a career
choice at a time when jobs and income for musicians are diminishing
and COVID-19 has had a monumental, long-term impact on the arts.
This includes feelings of burnout, career change and redirection,
the need for self-care, mental health issues related to the lack of
jobs and income, and the oftentimes crippling standards of
professional performing musicians. In addition, Nagel also points
to potential opportunities and advocates new roles for musicians in
the wake of a transformed music industry and society. Despite the
numerous challenges performing musicians face in their careers,
music can play a powerful role in mental life and society, helping
us cope with the ravages and losses of the pandemic and other
important events, and this can serve as much inspiration and
reinvigorate professional musicians questioning the purpose of
their career. All of these themes are developed through stories,
clinical examples, anecdotes, research data, and personal
reflection.
What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from
psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary
source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the
oral road to the unconscious, Melodies of the Mind invites the
reader to take a journey on an aural and oral road that explores
both music and emotion, and their links to the unconscious. In this
book, Julie Jaffee Nagel discusses how musical and psychoanalytic
concepts inform each other, showing the ways that music itself
provides an exceptional non-verbal pathway to emotion - a source of
'quasi' psychoanalytical clinical data. The interdisciplinary
synthesis of music and psychoanalytic knowledge provides a schema
for understanding the complexity of an individual's inner world as
that world interacts with social 'reality'. There are three main
areas explored: The Aural Road Moods and Melodies The Aural/Oral
Road Less Travelled Melodies of the Mind is an exploration of the
power of music to move us when words fall short. It suggests the
value of using music and ideas of the mind to better understand and
address psychological, social, and educational issues that are
relevant in everyday life. It will be of interest to
psychoanalysts, psychologists, music therapists, musicians, music
teachers, music students, social workers, educators, professionals
in the humanities and social services as well as music lovers.
Julie Jaffee Nagel is a graduate of The Juilliard School, The
University of Michigan, and The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.
She is on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and
is in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from
psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary
source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the
oral road to the unconscious, Melodies of the Mind invites the
reader to take a journey on an aural and oral road that explores
both music and emotion, and their links to the unconscious. In this
book, Julie Jaffee Nagel discusses how musical and psychoanalytic
concepts inform each other, showing the ways that music itself
provides an exceptional non-verbal pathway to emotion - a source of
'quasi' psychoanalytical clinical data. The interdisciplinary
synthesis of music and psychoanalytic knowledge provides a schema
for understanding the complexity of an individual's inner world as
that world interacts with social 'reality'. There are three main
areas explored: The Aural Road Moods and Melodies The Aural/Oral
Road Less Travelled Melodies of the Mind is an exploration of the
power of music to move us when words fall short. It suggests the
value of using music and ideas of the mind to better understand and
address psychological, social, and educational issues that are
relevant in everyday life. It will be of interest to
psychoanalysts, psychologists, music therapists, musicians, music
teachers, music students, social workers, educators, professionals
in the humanities and social services as well as music lovers.
Julie Jaffee Nagel is a graduate of The Juilliard School, The
University of Michigan, and The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.
She is on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and
is in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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