|
|  |
 CD release with guided relaxation to selections from Niels Eje’s MusiCure, written and narrated by the Norwegian doctor and music therapist Audun Myskja. (NB: spoken text in Norwegian).
AUDUN MYSKJA BIOGRAPHY
Audun Myskja, doctor, music therapist, leader and founder of “Senter for Livshjelp” (LifeAid Centre for empowerment). He was born in Trondheim in Norway and studied philosophy, psychology and comparative religion at university. He then qualified as a medical doctor and has worked in both general practice and as a hospital doctor.
His career has encompassed not only allopathic medicine (since 1981) but he has also gained considerable recognition in Norway and other countries for his work in a number of complementary therapies. Worked in general practice and internal medicine 1982-1998 - integrated medicine, educated in complementary therapies from 1974, practice with, healing, herbs and flower essences from 1976.Certified specialist general medicine 1992, renewed 1997, 2002.
He has qualifications in herbal medicine, energy medicine and flower remedy treatment, and has practised complementary and herbal medicine for nearly thirty years.
He teaches and lectures on medical music therapy at universities in Oslo, Bergen and Sandane and for the Norwegian Medical Association (NMA). He has been awarded two prizes by the NMA for his work on music therapy in the Norwegian health service.
He has been at the forefront of the development and use of music in geriatrics and palliative care in Norway.
He is also a leading teacher and lecturer on symptom relief, terminal care and complementary medicine at the Norwegian Academies of Advanced Nursing in Oslo, Bergen and Drammen.
He was Chief of Staff at a large hospice in Oslo and a consultant to the Norwegian Cancer Association on complementary therapies and terminal care. He was also engaged in a cancer research project at the Norwegian Cancer Hospital on music therapy and relaxation as support measures in advanced breast cancer.
Books on the subject “music in medicine” include:
Den musiske medisin (Musical medicine; Oslo: Cappelen 1999/2004; transl Danish, Russian)
Individualized music in geriatrics (norw Edition. Oslo: GERIA Veiviser, Ullevål University Hospital 2002)
Metodebok (Method in individualized music for health care workers. Oslo: Unikum forlag 2005)
Den siste song (The last song; commissioned curriculum book in music in medicine for health care workers, Bergen: Fagbokforlaget 2005)
|
|
|
|
