Gilbertson (music therapy, U. of Limerick, Ireland) and Aldridge (creative arts therapies, U. of Bradford, England) explain both principles and procedures in using music to attend to the personal needs and wishes of a person who has experience traumatic brain injury, especially improvisational aspects of music. They begin by discussing traumatic brain injury and rehabilitation, what the literature says, and therapeutic narrative analysis. Then they turn to case studies to illustrate such elements as identifying and realizing communicative potential in early isolated states, from distress and agitation to humor and joy, and physical dependency and creative partnership. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)