INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor DORIT AMIR Professor Dorit Amir is a registered music therapist who lives and works in Israel.
She studied music therapy at New York University, USA. In 1982 she founded and has been the head of the Music Therapy MA Program at Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Professor Amir has worked with a rich variety of populations and supervised music therapists in Israel, New York, Finland and Norway.
Professor Amir's articles have been published in many professional journals including Music Therapy; Music Therapy Perspectives; The Nordic Journal of Music Therapy; The Australian Journal of Music Therapy, Psychology of Music; and The Arts and Psychotherapy.
She has given lectures on various subjects in Israeli, as well as at European and World congresses. She has been invited to give guest lectures in Hungary, USA, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany and Russia.
Her book: Meeting the Sounds: Music Therapy Practice, Theory and Research was published in 1999 in Israel, in the Hebrew language.
Professor Amir served as the European editor of Voices, co-edited the Israeli journal Therapy Through the Arts and currently serves on the editorial board of The Arts and Psychotherapy and Barcelona's Monograph Series Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy.
She has organised conferences and has been a member of the scientific committee of the 9th, 10th and 11th World Congresses in Music Therapy.
Her present research projects and interests include: qualitative research; music and the holocaust; women, trauma and music therapy; supervision; spiritual and multicultural elements in music therapy.
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