What is Music Therapy? Here's The Explanation

Baca Juga

FEMUSINDO.com - Music therapy is an interpersonal process that uses music for physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual therapy to help patients improve or maintain their health.

In some cases, according to Wikipedia, the patient's needs are addressed directly through music. On other occasions, the therapy method depends on the relationship that develops between the patient and the therapist.

This music therapy is used for individuals of all ages and with various conditions, including for mental disorders, medical problems, physical disabilities, sensory disorders, developmental disabilities, substance abuse, communication disorders, interpersonal problems, and for people who are in the aging process.

Therapy is also used to improve learning concentration, increase self-esteem, reduce stress, support physical exercise, and facilitate a number of other health-related activities.

One of the earliest records that mentions music therapy is located in (c. 872-950) Al-Farabi. The meaning of the treatise of reason describes the effects of music therapy on the soul. Music has long been used to help people overcome their emotional problems.

In the 17th century, scholar Robert Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy argued that music and dance were essential in treating mental illness, especially melancholy.

He noted that music had "a very great power ... to drive away disease" and called it "a very potent remedy against despair and melancholy."

Burton noted that in ancient times, Canus, a Rhodian violinist, used music to "make a melancholy man more cheerful, ... a lover more enchanted, a religious man more devout".

In November 2006, Dr Michael J. Crawford and colleagues also found that music therapy helped patients with schizophrenia. In the Ottoman Empire, mental illness was treated with music. (*)