Helen Bonny
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Helen Lindquist Bonny is a music therapist who developed "Guided Imagery and Music" often referred to as "GIM".
Music therapist Kenneth Bruscia uses the following definition to describe Guided Imagery and Music:
"(GIM) refers to all forms of music-imaging in an expanded state of consciousness, including not only the specific individual and group forms that Bonny developed, but also all variations and modifications in those forms created by her followers."
Helen Bonny studied with E. Thayer Gaston
at the University of Kansas
in the early 1960s, where she received her bachelor's degree in music education, with a major in music therapy
. She continued on to receive a master's degree in music education with an emphasis in research.
After completing her PhD in the late 1960s, she began researching the effects of music on imagination, and in 1973 authored a book, co-written with Louis Savary, entitled "Music and Your Mind: Listening with a New Consciousness"
Although Guided Imagery and Music draws from various schools of psychology, Helen Bonny has cited as its main influences the humanistic and the transpersonal psychology of Carl Rogers
, and Abraham Maslow
. Bonny was also profoundly influenced by the work of Carl Jung
.
Helen Bonny's grandson, Miles Bonny
is an active recording musician in Kansas City, Mo.
Music therapist Kenneth Bruscia uses the following definition to describe Guided Imagery and Music:
"(GIM) refers to all forms of music-imaging in an expanded state of consciousness, including not only the specific individual and group forms that Bonny developed, but also all variations and modifications in those forms created by her followers."
Helen Bonny studied with E. Thayer Gaston
E. Thayer Gaston
Everett Thayer Gaston was a psychologist active in the 1940s-1960s who helped develop music therapy in the United States...
at the University of Kansas
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
in the early 1960s, where she received her bachelor's degree in music education, with a major in music therapy
Music therapy
Music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of an interpersonal process in which a trained music therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients to improve or maintain their...
. She continued on to receive a master's degree in music education with an emphasis in research.
After completing her PhD in the late 1960s, she began researching the effects of music on imagination, and in 1973 authored a book, co-written with Louis Savary, entitled "Music and Your Mind: Listening with a New Consciousness"
Although Guided Imagery and Music draws from various schools of psychology, Helen Bonny has cited as its main influences the humanistic and the transpersonal psychology of Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers
Carl Ransom Rogers was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology...
, and Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow was an American professor of psychology at Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research and Columbia University who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs...
. Bonny was also profoundly influenced by the work of Carl Jung
Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as "by nature religious" and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and...
.
Helen Bonny's grandson, Miles Bonny
Miles Bonny
Miles Bonny is a record producer, singer, trumpeter, and DJ. Miles currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri. The grandson of Helen Bonny, he was born in New York, New York to Francis Bonny and Anne Grothe and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he attended Teaneck High School. He moved to...
is an active recording musician in Kansas City, Mo.