Aktywne formy muzykoterapii w leczeniu chorych depresyjnych. / Active forms of music therapy in the treatment of depressed patients

Author(s): Paterka, Izabella, Fellman, Boguslawa, Nalewajko, Bozena

Journal/Book: Psychiatria Polska. 1982; 16: 377-382.

Abstract: Presents findings on the influence of periodically applied active music therapy on clinical and experimental indexes in patients with endogenous and psychogenic depressive syndrome. Ss were administered a measure of general feeling, the Piorkowski apparatus, and the tapping test. The therapeutic effect of music therapy was found to vary depending on nosologic diagnosis and kind of therapeutic activities. The effects of music therapy were beneficial in Ss with endogenous depression if the therapeutic activities were of a relatively simple and guided character. There was no improvement in the parameters studied if these activities were of a more complex and improvised character. No such differences in the therapeutic effect occurred in Ss with psychogenic depression. Findings are discussed in terms of an S-activation hypothesis of the pathomechanism of endogenous depression. (Russian abstract) (10 ref)

Note: active music therapy; patients with endogenous vs psychogenic depressive syndrome

Keyword(s): Depression emotion; music therapy; adulthood

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