Creativity, identity and healing
Participants' Accounts of Music Therapy in Cancer Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4783308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norma Daykin (0000-0002-1114-6780, University of the West of England, corresponding author), Stuart Mcclean (0000-0002-6028-7010, University of the West of England), Leslie Bunt (University of the West of England) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 349-370 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363459307077548 |
| PMID | 17606699 |
| OpenAlex | W2101725168 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article reports on findings from a study of the accounts of people participating in music therapy as part of a programme of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in supportive cancer care. The article outlines the perceived effects of music therapy, which shares many characteristics with CAM therapies as well as offering a distinct contribution as a creative therapy. Hence in this article we draw on theories and writings from the sociology of CAM as well as those relating to music, healing and aesthetics in order to explore participants' accounts. The importance of identity and the role of creativity in processes of individuation are key themes emerging from the analysis. While music and creativity are often seen uncritically as resources for health and well-being, we draw attention to the challenges and complexity of diverse responses to music, framed by personal biographies that are in turn often situated within socially constructed notions of aesthetics. We argue that in research on music therapy, as well as other CAM therapies, issues of identity can be key to an understanding of questions of therapeutic impact
Aesthetics · Art · Creativity · Individuation · Music therapy · Psychotherapist · Situated · Sociology · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies · Music Therapy and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Beyond the borders
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Art in health and identity
The Sociology of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Understanding everyday creativity
Validation of the Musical Identity Measure
Medical Students’ Efforts to Integrate and/or Reclaim Authentic Identity
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Intuition, Subjectivity, and Le Bricoleur
Creativity and health
Balancing exercises
Song lyrics and the alteration of self-image
Resonance as a Social Phenomenon
Complementary medicine today
The Wounded Storyteller
Distinction
Disrupted Lives
“Finding a New Place…” Metaphor and Narrative in One Cancer Survivor's BMGIM Therapy
Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Music Therapy's Relevance in a Cancer Hospital Researched Through a Constructivist Lens
Disruption, dissonance and embodiment
Doctoring the Spirit
Treatment Effects of GIM Therapy
The illness is part of the person
The 'eclipse' of folk medicine in western society
Chronic illness as biographical disruption
Illness narratives
Orpheus wounded
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |