Music Therapy As Noninvasive Treatment

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ID4635545
AutoresSusan C Gardstrom (0000-0001-8371-4217)
Ano2008
Volume17
Fascículo2
Páginas142-154
Data de publicação2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0803-9828 • E-ISSN: 1944-8260
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08098130809478205
OpenAlexW2060089189
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas17

The claim that music therapy is a noninvasive treatment modality appears to be widespread in the professional literature and popular press, yet the term noninvasive remains undefined and the claim largely unsubstantiated. The assertion that music therapy is nonintrusive has been applied to both medical and nonmedical treatment settings. This essay explores the specifics of and inherent contradictions in this assertion; that is, invasiveness may be beneficial to and even necessary for therapeutic change in transformative music psychotherapy. The reader is challenged to consider the invasive potentials in all features of music therapy as a multi–faceted process. The essay concludes with speculation about why the claim survives. Questions for further exploration related to this topic are also offered. Keywords: Music therapyinvasivenoninvasivenon–invasivemusic psychotherapy

Aesthetics · Art · Assertion · Developmental psychology · Modality (human–computer interaction · Music therapy · Psychotherapist · Speculation · Transformative learning · Treatment modality · Computer Science · Diverse Music Education Insights · Medicine · Music Therapy and Health · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychology · Surgery