Between Couch and Piano

Between Couch and Piano links well-established psychoanalytic ideas with historical and neurological theory to help us begin to understand from a psychoanalytic perspective some of the reasons behind music's ubiquity and power.

Gilbert J. Rose is in private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis and is a member of the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and Humanities at Yale.

Kramer, Foreword: A Musician Listens to a Psychoanalyst Listening to Music. Preface. Between Words and Music. On the Shores of Self: Beckett's Molloy (1973). Whence the Feelings From Art: Communication or Concordance? The Music of Time in Faulkner's Light in August (1980). Music as Temporal Prosthesis. In Pursuit of Slow Time: Modern Music and a Clinical Vignette (1987). The Birth of Music in the Context of Loss: Music and Affect Regulation. The Power of Implicit Motion: It Goes Straight Through. A Psychoanalyst Listens to a Musician Listening to Himself Composing. Bibliography.