The Religion of Evidence Based Practice: Helpful or Harmful to Music Therapy?

Tony Wigram (13.8.1953-24.6.2011) Trained as music therapist with Juliette Alvin at the Guildhall Post-Graduate Course in Music Therapy. Head music therapist at Harperbury Hospital and Harper House Children's Service. Associate professor in music therapy at Aalborg University (DK) 1992, ordinary professor from 1998.PhD in psychology from St George's Medical School, London University on a study of vibroacoustic therapy.His special clinical areas were autism spectrum disorders, Rett's syndrome, and the physiological effects of sound and music.Head of the Post-Graduate Research Training program at Aalborg University from 1997.   Visiting Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin 1994-2005; Professor 2006-11; Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne 1996-2010. Chairman of the European Music Therapy Confederation 1989-96 and the World Federation of Music Therapy 1996-99. Chair of the International Consortium of Nine Music Therapy Research Universities from 2008.  Associate editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.Major publications: The Art and Science of Music Therapy (1995), Music, Vibration and Health (1997), Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Developmental Disability, Paediatrics, Neurology and Psychiatry (1999), A Comprehensive Guide to Music Therapy (2002), Improvisation (2004), Songwriting (2005), Receptive Methods in Music Therapy (2007), Microanalysis (2007).