The Health Benefits Of Music Therapy

The Different Kinds Of Music Therapy

Specifically, with passive therapy, the therapist begins by playing soothing and calming music that allows the patient to visualize peaceful images and reflect on their thoughts, emotions, and sensations. In contrast, in most active music therapy sessions, the therapist and patient work together playing instruments and using their voices and bodies to make music, whereas this form is highly interactive for the patient compared to passive music therapy. The use of instruments in music therapy is organized to involve as many sensory organs as possible, such as touch, sound, and sight. In both forms of therapy, rhythmic and melodic components of music are manipulated to create stimuli to help a patient reveal and deal with specific emotions, such as loneliness, joy, grief, gratitude, sadness, and frustration.

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