Music psychopathology. VI. The course objective instrumental performance characteristics with psychiatric inpatients

Author(s): Fani, M., Raith, L.

Journal/Book: Psychopathology. 1992; 25: 273-82.

Abstract: The impairment of musical expression due to mental disease is reversible with growing remission. This finding resulted from follow-up examinations of instrumental playings assessed by means of a polarity profile with 60 psychiatric inpatients and 14 controls. A follow-up comparison of objective performance characteristics as defined by careful analysis of the recordings did not reveal a meaningful variation. This is taken as a strong indication that even in severe psychopathologic alterations, learned motor patterns of music performance are fairly stable. A simple reduction in playing irregularities cannot explain the systematic influence of psychopathology on musical expression.

Keyword(s): Adult ; Aptitude ; Follow Up Studies; Hospitalization ; Mental Disorders classification; Mental Disorders psychology; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Mental Disorders diagnosis; Music psychology Female; Human; Male

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