TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating words, images, and text in BMGIM
T2 - Finding connections through semiotic intertextuality
AU - Short, A.K.
AU - Gibb, H.
AU - Holmes, Catherine
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - An innovative application of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM) was researched involving six clients who had undergone complex cardiac surgery. This psychodynamic method led patients through a reflective and exploratory experience combining imagery, selected classical music, and sensitive verbal interventions into an experience rather like an unfolding waking dream with a musical soundtrack. Text produced during these audiotaped sessions was analyzed for semiotic meanings. The analytical framework drew upon a Jungian interpretive system working intertextually across several different kinds of narrative, identified within each patient's story. Text from 31 BMGIM sessions was used in the analysis. Findings indicate that this approach has the capacity to integrate all aspects of the BMGIM therapeutic session and deliver a depth of experiential meaning relevant to the therapeutic management of clients' post-surgical recovery. In doing so, it expanded our knowledge of BMGIM practice in the healthcare setting, and contributed further research capacity to this complex treatment modality.
AB - An innovative application of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM) was researched involving six clients who had undergone complex cardiac surgery. This psychodynamic method led patients through a reflective and exploratory experience combining imagery, selected classical music, and sensitive verbal interventions into an experience rather like an unfolding waking dream with a musical soundtrack. Text produced during these audiotaped sessions was analyzed for semiotic meanings. The analytical framework drew upon a Jungian interpretive system working intertextually across several different kinds of narrative, identified within each patient's story. Text from 31 BMGIM sessions was used in the analysis. Findings indicate that this approach has the capacity to integrate all aspects of the BMGIM therapeutic session and deliver a depth of experiential meaning relevant to the therapeutic management of clients' post-surgical recovery. In doing so, it expanded our knowledge of BMGIM practice in the healthcare setting, and contributed further research capacity to this complex treatment modality.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651515540&doi=10.1080%2f08098131003764031&partnerID=40&md5=db9c0fa6c215b188c5434f6d530e396d
U2 - 10.1080/08098131003764031
DO - 10.1080/08098131003764031
M3 - Article
VL - 20
SP - 3
EP - 21
JO - Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
JF - Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
SN - 0803-9828
IS - 1
ER -