Talk:Music therapy

Other countries

any info on other countries? Can anything be said in general about music therapy in the world today? -- Tarquin 23:17 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)

Voices is an online international journal where you can read articles have mediated and unmediated discussions about music therapy. There are many notable music therapists outside of the U.S.. Aldridge around Europe, Benzon from spain, and Nordoff-Robbins institute in London. I have met other music therapists from Australia, Argentina, China, Japan, Korea, and the Middle east. Interestingly enough there are quite a few famous people such as Dr. Oliver Sacks, M.D. that have been a recipients of music therapy and have written about it. Dr. Sacks who wrote the book Awakenings, recieved music therapy to learn how to walk after an accident. Later he testified before congress. When you watch the movie Shine, you will see the main character look into the window of a music therapy room in an Australian Mental Hospital. Medical professionals are still amazed at its results and have a hard time explaining its success even after trying other treatments. --Jim Merrell, April 24, 2005

I'd like to agree with Tarquin. This is very Amero-centric. There are active music therapy communities across Europe, all the English-speaking world, South America and even Iran. It would also be worth making the links between Music therapy and traditional disciplines which combined music and healing. Admittedly these are very different things, but this could be made clear, as for example, June Tillman-Boyce has done in Music and Healing: The Wounds that Sing (Jessica Kingsley publishers)

Suggestion:

Paragraphs 5-8 should form a distinct section, Music Therapy in the United States, to be followed initially by a section, Music Therapy Outside the U.S., to be expanded by people in various countries into more sections. If I get time I'll do the U.K. one myself, but don't hold your breath (music therapy encourages you to breathe naturally)

--Gwaka Lumpa, December 15th, 2005

Established?

Until I read this article, I feel I had a preconception that music therapy wasn't an established medical field, putting it an "iffy" category. Is this a common misconception? If so, maybe it should be addressed.--Josh Holbrook, March 21 2005

In the 1970s, Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital (see the Google hits for

about 54,000 for "Larue D. Carter " OR "Larue Carter "

) was the most advanced mental hospital in Indiana (and may still well be). It had music therapy, recreational therapy, and occupational therapy departments, which all gave me the impression of having a status and theoretical basis closely related to that of milieu therapy (which was however less compartmentalized, being implemented ward by ward and patient by patient).

Hmm, no WP article, but re its mainstream legitimacy, also note

about 65,000 for "milieu therapy"

and answers.com's extract from McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms:

milieu therapy

(psychology) The treatment of mental disorder or maladjustment by making substantial changes in a patient's immediate life circumstances and environment in a way that will enhance the effectiveness of other forms of therapy. Also known as situation therapy.

and the fact that The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary, cited on the same answers.com page, includes a (briefer) def'n.
--Jerzy•t 15:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Merging the two pages

The two pages should not be merged, though one might link to another, they are not the same thing. Pretty good page on music therapy though.

no way the two are very diffrent doc steven bowes

I agree with Steven. Music therapy, at least as practiced in the UK, is very different from what is being described here. Gwaka Lumpa 10:43, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

List of music therapists needed

How about having a list of music therapists, such as Steven Halpern or Jill Purce, to append this page? Jill Purce is the wife of Rupert Sheldrake, and has made some important contributions to this field which arguably merit her having her own article. ACEO 10:55, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

• I Undo'd the addn of two apparently unsupportable claims of someone being "important" to the field. One of them may be notable as a musician, in contrast to his GTest (emphasis & lk added by Jerzy)

42 for "John Beltzer" therapy

but it's abusive (besides probably just plain false) to throw him on this list without offering any evidence.
--Jerzy•t 14:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Linkspam

I deleted most of the external links on this page because Wikipedia is neither a repository of links nor a directory. Links designed to call attention to a provider of music therapy are not appropriate even if the page also contains information about music therapy.--FreeKresge 04:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC) I also think the reference to Michael J. Crawford's research on schizophrenia is out of place in the 'Music Therapy in UK' section. It says "once again found"... when was the first time? There should be a section on research, if anyone want to put it together. Also this link seems to be mainly promoting one researcher.

therapy

i found this site as a good breafe outline on the music therapy.