Music As Medicine [Facsimile] [Paperback]

Deforia Lane (Author), Rob Wilkins (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 031020660X | ISBN-13: 978-0310206606 | Publication Date: February 16, 1996

Deforia Lane shares the healing power of music. Once a budding opera singer, Lane has dedicated her talent to treating hospital patients with music therapy. The results are astonishing. In the presence of Deforia's musical gifts, seriously ill people find new joy and hope. Lane is the first music therapist to receive a grant to study music's therapeutic effects on cancer patients. Thousands of patients have been inspired by her, and her success has spurred hospitals across the nation to launch music therapy programs. 'Music and healing are often matters of the human spirit,' says Deforia. 'because of the nature of my job, I have witnessed more than a few miracles, miracles worth telling and retelling.' Music as Medicine is a window into Deforia Lane's world of miracles, where the melody of one person's life has brought healing and strength to many.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

If the mark of a true artist is that he or she can see beyond the tangible into the world of the intangible, then Deforia Lane is an artist. Partly as one introspectively engaged in autobiography and partly in her professional role as a resident director of music therapy at University Hospitals of Cleveland's Ireland Cancer Center, at Rainbow Babies and at Children's Hospital, Lane relives the ways in which she has seen music work spiritual and sometimes physical healing upon the ill (including herself) and their families. While Lane certainly seems gifted musically, her larger and more rare gift may be the ability to see grace in everyday occurrences and to name it. This book will appeal to those interested in both music therapy and in the spiritual aspects of music as well.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Music therapist Lane's book is both autobiography and splendid religious testimony. For as much as she has been devoted to music, she has been a devout Christian whose faith is of the higher kind Christopher Lasch spoke of in The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy that trusts in the goodness of being despite the inevitability of suffering. That faith animated and sustained her through the early disappointment of not quite making the grade as a professional concert soprano, the potential mishap of becoming pregnant before marrying, the miscarriage of her second pregnancy, training for a new career and subsequently balancing job and family duties, and then having to deal with breast cancer. From those challenges, she rose to prominence in her field (she brings seemingly instinctive gifts to her chosen work, as her many anecdotes of ministering to the sick and disabled attest--but she never says so) and became a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. With Wilkins' help, Lane makes her inspiring life story theologically compelling, too. Ray Olson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan (February 16, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031020660X
• ISBN-13: 978-0310206606
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,089,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Deforia Lane is resident director of music therapy at Ireland Cancer Center and Rainbow Babies and Children's' Hospital, part of the University Hospitals of Cleveland. Lane lives in Cleveland with her husband and two sons.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Notes Full of Medicine / A Spoonful of Notes, March 6, 2001

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This review is from: Music As Medicine (Paperback)

From laughter to tears and back again, and again. There is truly not enough to say about the author and her God given gifts she shares through Music Therapy. The book evidences the spiritual workings in lifes challenges and complexities that enable this author to touch, to empathise, to lessen pain, comfort families, bring joy, and to set to music a legacy for those walking through the fire. What an outstanding book of trial, coping, hope, love and triumph.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Praise for Music as Medicine, March 14, 2010

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Deforia Lane's life story is warm and inspiring. It is an amazing tale of a gifted woman, musician and healer that will bring tears and touch your heart. It speaks of a kind of healing that adds a whole new dimension to the field of medicine. A must read for Music Therapists and a source of insight to any one who is concerned about the care of others. The healing power of music is known and deeply felt by musicians. Lane's work with the ill makes one think that more music in everyone's life may help keep better balance and perspective in a hectic world.

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5.0 out of 5 stars readingforlife, February 1, 2009

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This woman is amazing! She has a unique ability to capture the essence of her life and share it in a way that makes me feel she's right in the room with me. I bought this book to send to a friend who has recently become a music therapist and thought I would read it first. So glad I did. It's good to know there are people like Deforia Lane in this world.