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Chapter 10 of the book "Music and Altered States: Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addictions" is presented. It explores the use of music in its various forms for the treatment of substance abusers. It further provides information on the different genres of music and drugs and further highlights the psychodynamic influence of music on listeners.

Chapter 11 of the book "Music and Altered States: Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addictions" is presented. It explores the therapeutic use of music in drug rehabilitation for the treatment of traumatic memories in substance users. It further highlights the use of physioacoustics to create somatic awareness and altered states of consciousness.

Chapter six of the book "Constructing Musical Healing: The Wounds That Heal" is presented. It examines and compares the musical tools available in the present and considers how they might be used in various healing contexts, especially in the health and education systems. It is believed that music can transform potentially destructive situations into areas of growth.

A variety of algorithms, forms and other clinical aids that relate to articles that appeared in the book "Constructing Musical Healing: The Wounds That Heal" is presented.

Chapter four of the book "Constructing Musical Healing: The Wounds That Heal" is presented. It explores how the New Age, which is composed of many traditions both ancient and modern, has produced a variety of musical practices regarded as intrinsically healing. The New Age has formulated healing systems within the context of a strong spiritual sense that can be understood as balancing the dominant classical and popular traditions of the West.

Chapter three of the book "Constructing Musical Healing: The Wounds That Heal" is presented. It explores the various ways in which shamanic cultures perform their healing rituals with the use of music. Such ways include the communal basis of their training and healing, the use of trances (which are sometimes associated with some kinds of herbs) and connections with natural phenomena and animals. The term "shaman" is also discussed.

Chapter two of the book "Constructing Musical Healing: The Wounds That Heal" is presented. It deals with how the Western classical tradition has associated music with healing in the work of musicologists, music historians, philosophers and mystics. The article also highlights the definition of the term "classical," as it has two meanings. The first is linked with music written between 1750 and 1820, while the second relates to notated European music from monasteries.

Chapter one of the book "Constructing Musical Healing: The Wounds That Heal" is presented. It looks at the ancient connection between music and healing and discusses the philosophical framework that underpinned it. Music has a central power that makes connections within the body, between human beings, and between the natural world and God. Most world religions use music in religious rituals, such as celebrating the turning of the seasons.

Chapter five of the book "Constructing Musical Healing: The Wounds That Heal" is presented. It focuses on the relationship between music and healing that has found a place in mainstream Western medicine in the form of music therapy. Music therapy has been influenced by psychoanalytic traditions, behaviorist traditions and the humanistic psychology of Carl Rogers.