Monochrome stringed instruments are playing an increasingly important role in human healing. The specific sounds have a strong salutogenic effect and are used successfully in pain medicine, neurology, neonatology, hospice care, psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, among others. This collection of essays takes this diversity into account. Experienced music therapists from Austria, Germany and Switzerland present their extensive knowledge of the body tambura, monochord and body monochord. Insights into new areas such as prevention research and the use of the concert monochord in child and adolescent psychiatry stand alongside in-depth examinations of trance and mystical experiences, as well as experiences from the field of psychiatry, addiction treatment and palliative care.

Christiane Trost, born in 1970, early courses of study (teaching degree, Magistra Artium, church music) at the Universities of Rostock and Greifswald in the fields of music and musicology, philosophy, theology, education, literature and linguistics. Yoga teacher training, further training in rhythm and elementary movement and dance pedagogy/ University of Salzburg, music and psychotherapy further training (HP/psychotherapy/ Hamburg, Bachelor Psychology/ Hagen, Guided Imagery and Music/ Berlin, Frohne-Hagemann, trance and body therapy/ Würzburg, Strobel ), Master Music Therapy/ Berlin UdK. Since 2000, Christiane Trost has been working as a freelancer in various institutions and in her own practice as a lecturer and teacher in various disciplines, as a musician and music therapist. In addition to working for the SAPV at the Rostock Children's Hospital, she works in a hospice. Since 2008, the author has been working intensively on the effects and therapeutic use of monochrome stringed instruments, and in 2021 she published "The Body Monochord in Individual Music Therapy Work". She is also currently working as a teaching therapist and freelancer at the Deutz instrument workshop in Berlin.