Music Therapy Conversations

Ep 81 Professor Gitta Strehlow


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Prof. Dr. Gitta Strehlow is Professor of Music Therapy at the University of Music and Drama Hamburg in Germany and a Music therapist at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the AGAPLESION Bethesda Hospital Hamburg-Bergedorf, Germany. Her research areas include: psychodynamic music therapy, trauma, psychiatry and mentalization.

She undertook special education teacher training with music as a subject, University of Hamburg and Hamburg University of Music and Drama (1986-1994), field research in Indonesia exploring gamelan music (1994-1995). She was a teacher at a special school (1997-2000) before embarking on a diploma in music therapy at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg (1997-2000). Practical research: music therapy with sexually abused children and adolescents, Institute for Music Therapy at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Decker-Voigt) in conjunction with the association Dunkelziffer e.V. (1997-2005). Self-employed there. Music therapist from 2005.

Gitta has been a music therapist at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Bethesda Hospital Hamburg-Bergedorf (since 2000). Further training in psychodynamic-imaginative trauma therapy (2002). National and international lecturing and teaching activities (since 2004). Further training in Mentalization-Based-Treatment (MBT) with P. Fonagy and A. Bateman (2007).

Her doctorate was entitled "Töne an der Grenze, Interaktionsmuster in der musiktherapeutischen Begegnung mit Patienteninnen, die unter einer Borderline-Pönlichkeitsstörung leiden" ("Tones on the borderline, interaction patterns in music therapy encounters with patients who suffer from borderline personality disorder"). She has also conducted post-doctoral research into Borderline personality disorder patients in music therapy in Belfast in 2015).

She has held a part-time professorship "Psychoanalysis/Psychodynamic Theory and Practice" at the Institute for Music Therapy at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama since October 2019.

Webpage:

https://www.hfmt-hamburg.de/hochschule/organisation/personen/gitta-strehlow

PUBLICATIONS

Strehlow, G. (2023 in press) Selected contemporary approaches to music therapy in psychiatry. Music & Medicine, Volume 15/ 4

Strehlow, G. (2023) Alliance Rupture in Musiktherapie In. Die Psychotherapie, 68/4, S. 289-295

Strehlow, G. (2023) Hamburg Institute for Music Therapy: A Model for free Improvisation within Psychodynamic Music Therapy. In: K. Goodman (Ed.) Developing Issues in World Music Therapy Education and Training: A Plurality of Views. Charles C. Thomas. P. 49-71.

Strehlow, G. (2021) Trust development is essential in music therapy, Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, Vol. 30, No1,97-99. DOI: 10.1080/08098131.2020.1812272

Strehlow, G. (2021). Trauma, Mentalisierung und künstlerische Therapien, Band Trauma II, Forum für Kunsttherapien, Fachverband für Gestaltende Psychotherapie und Kunsttherapie, Schweiz (S. 13-18)

Strehlow, G. (2021). Stichwörter „Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung" und „Mentalisierung". In: H.-H. Decker-Voigt & E. Weymann (Hg): Lexikon Musiktherapie, 3. Auflage Göttingen u.a.: Hogrefe Verlag, S. 83-88; 340-346.

Strehlow, G. & Spitzer C. (2020). Dissoziative Störungen. In U. Schmidt, T. Stegemann, C. Spitzer (Hg.): Musiktherapie bei psychiatrischen und psychosomatischen Störungen. München: Elsevier Urban & Fischer, S. 112-118

Strehlow, G. & Schmidt, U. (2020). Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörungen. In: U. Schmidt, T. Stegemann, C. Spitzer (Hg.): Musiktherapie bei psychischen und psychosomatischen Störungen. Elsevier Urban & Fischer, S. 135-138

Strehlow, G. (2020). Musiktherapie mit Opfern sexueller Gewalt. In: A.Wölfl & S. Siebert (Hg.). Musiktherapie mit Opfern von Missbrauch und Gewalt. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. S. 47-59

Strehlow, G. (2020). Traumata und deren Auswirkung. In: Spektrum der Musiktherapie. VdM (Verband deutscher Musikschulen). S. 84-86

Strehlow, G. (2019). How Neuro Research supports Music Therapy with Children who have experienced Sexual Abuse. In: Music Therapy Today, open access, music-therapy-today, special issue: Trauma. S. 59-77 (Mentalising)

Strehlow, G. (2019): Musiktherapeutische Cochrane Studien im Bereich der Psychiatrie. In: GMS Journal of Arts Therapies – Journal of Art-, Music-, Dance-, Drama- and Poetry-Therapy. GMS J Art Ther 2019;1:Doc04

Strehlow, G. & Hannibal, N. (2019). Mentalizing in improvisational music therapy, In: Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 28:4, 333-346, DOI: 10.1080/08098131.2019.1574877

Keller, J.; Strehlow, G.; Wiesmüller, E.; Wolf, H.G. & Wölfl, A. (2018): Methodische Modifikationen für die musiktherapeutische Behandlung von Patientinnen mit Traumafolgestörungen. In: MU, 39(1), S. 12-22

Fenner, F.; Abdelazim, R.; Bräuninger I.; Strehlow, G. & Seifert, S. (2017): Provision of arts therapies for people with severe mental illness. In: Curr Opin Psychiatry, 30, 306 – 311

Strehlow, G. & Schmidt, U. (2017): Musiktherapie bei Patienten mit Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung. In PTT, Schattauer 2, S. 129-138.

Strehlow, G. (2016). Traumatische Erfahrungen und ihre Behandlungsmöglichkeiten in der Musiktherapie. Musik und Gesundheit, Hg. Decker-Voigt. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. 30, S.14-18

Strehlow, G. & Lindner, R. (2016): Music therapy interaction patterns in relation to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients. In: Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 2, 134-158.

Strehlow, G. & Schmidt, U. (2015). Musiktherapie bei Patienten mit Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung – ein Überblick. Musik und Gesundsein, Hg. Decker-Voigt, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. S. 15-21.

Strehlow, G. (2014): Förderung der Mentalisierungsfähigkeit in der Gruppenmusiktherapie. Hg. (DMtG) Jahrbuch Musiktherapie. Wiesbaden: Reichert, S. 197-214

Strehlow, G. (2013): Music versus shard. In: Metzner, S. (Ed.): Reflected Sounds. Case Studies from Music Therapy. E-book. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag. Übersetzung von 2007

Strehlow, G. (2013): Mentalisierung und ihr Bezug zur Musiktherapie. In: MU, 34(2), S. 135-145

Strehlow, G. (2012): Scham und Musiktherapie bezogen auf die Problematik des sexuellen Missbrauchs. In: MU, 33(3), S. 228-237.

Monographie: Strehlow, G. (2011): Töne an der Grenze. Interaktionsmuster in der musiktherapeutischen Begegnung mit Patientinnen, die unter einer Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung leiden. Online Veröffentlichung der Dissertation: http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/opus/volltexte/2011/4968

Strehlow, G. (2009a): Mentalisierung und ihr Nutzen für die Musiktherapie. In: MU, 30(2), S.89-101.

Strehlow, G. (2009b): The use of music therapy in treating sexually abused children. In: Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 18(2), S. 167–183.

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