Reflections on music therapy and developmental psychology |
Journal/Book: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikterapi. 1993; 1: 3-12.
Abstract: The purpose of the article is to set new light on the origin of the human musical experience, through the developmental theory that combines the developmental theories of Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud. The main idea of the article is to show how an individual could move within the different developmental phrases and modalitites of thinking in relations to music. One could move from the logical thinking of everyday life to the arcaic thinking of the unconsious and vica versa. The basis of the article is the theory that musical and psychic occurences are isomorphous. According to that theory music is a psychic process, and has its origins in the states of tension within man appearing in sonant-acoustic form through the ear. This means that music is an external, perceptibel manifestation of that inner process; a kind of process that individuals use to transform the inner i.e. physical not lingual experiences of meaning into external audible form. The article handles the forms of music as means of achiving psychic harmony, and music as transitional and self object.
Note: Ph.D.Ass.Prof. University of Turku, Department of Education, is the coordinator of the music therapy deucation at the Univresity of Jyväskylä in Finland. Lehthonen has written a great number of articles in music therapy, and he is the editor of the Finnish Journal of Music Therapy. Language: English. Address: Laaleistientie 36, SF-21270 Nouisiaineene, Finland
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