Physiologische und psychologische Reaktionen auf unterschiedliche musiktherapeutische Interventionen im Vergleich zu einer Entspannungsubung ENG TITLE: Physiological and psychological reactions to different music therapy interventions in comparison with a relaxation exercise

Abstract: Music therapy aspires to create a space in which challenge encourages the patient to discover his or her own spaces for action (active therapy) and "experimental action-imagination" (receptive therapy). Examples of methods in receptive music therapy are musical-catathymic imagery and guided imagery and music. Examination of 31 patients in a psychosomatic ward undergoing psychological and physiological means of treatment shows the potency of both kinds of music therapy for furthering introspection as well as activating and altering mood. Statistical results are supplemented by annotated interviews with individual patients. (author)

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