MUSIC IN ILLNESS.

Music in the Treatment of Mental Illness

Psychiatry today is concerned with the treatment of the whole person. Of necessity therefore, it draws not only on medical knowledge but also on history, the social sciences, philosophy, religion and the arts?in fact it ranges over the whole of human experience. In any attempt, however modest, to discover what the arts?particularly music?may contribute to psychotherapeutic techniques, some ment...

Music Therapy and Chronic Mental Illness: Overcoming the Silent Symptoms

Finding a comfortable and functional life is a challenge for many individuals living with chronic mental illness. Even when active symptoms are resolved and the individual is deemed “stable,” the residual traumas of mental illness, including loneliness, loss, grief, and stigma, persist, severely reducing quality of life and acting as destabilizers. Our current healthcare system is not inclined ...

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Corticosteroids in Neurological and Mental Illness

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Anthropological Study of Folk Music in Gilan Province in Iran (Instrumental Music)

Ethno-musicology is an academic field encompassing various approaches to the study of music that emphasize its cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts instead of its isolated ‘sound’ component or any particular repertoire. The term ‘Ethno-musicology’ became common in1950, although the emergence of the field can be traced back to the late nineteenth ce...