"McKinley, Marcia" wrote:

> I'm really enjoying all these suggestions about songs...However, I would
> also like to hear more about how everyone uses music.

I have used two rock videos for illustrating ideas.  I used "I Hate Myself
for Loving You" by Joan Jet and the Blackharts to wake students up in an 8:00
o'clock class.  Then we analyzed the lyrics using psychoanalytic concepts.
The song's main theme fits the psychoanalytic model of depression and it even
has a dream in it.  I'm sure Joan her associate were in analysis when they
wrote the song.  Her manager even sent me a good copy of the video and
permission to use it in my classes.  I also used Sinead O'Conner's "Nothing
Compares 2 U" to illustrate cognitive therapy of depression.  There is a
clear sense of depression in the song and several nice cognitive distortions
that fit the Beck or Ellis ABC model.

Bob Grossman
Kalamazoo College
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