Guided Imagery and Music

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) (imaginative psychotherapy with music according to Helen Bonny) is a music- centered psychotherapy form of music therapy in which (mostly) classical music is used in a targeted manner in order to dissolve blockages, promote emotional development and personal development promote. It was developed and taught by the American music therapist Helen Bonny around 1970 . Individual scientific studies on their effectiveness before the turn of the century have since been supplemented in Germany by research in various therapeutic areas and published in dissertations, for example.

Helen Bonny worked at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland (USA) to work therapeutically with clients using targeted drug induction (mostly LSD ). At that time it was hoped that drug therapy would dissolve the trauma of the client and be able to influence mental illness. When work with these substances was banned shortly afterwards, she developed the GIM method based on her experience as a musician and music therapist.

method

Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is based on the reference theories of humanistic psychology and can be understood as an integrative process, as analytical and behavioral therapy or e.g. B. incorporate schema therapeutic theories. Music is viewed as a “co-therapist” and is valued highly because of its potential for imagination. It stimulates the imagination and enables intensive experiences. For this purpose, carefully selected pieces of classical music are used to trigger inner images, sensations, feelings, stories and memories. Helen Bonny and her colleagues have developed over 40 music programs for therapeutic use. A music program usually consists of five to six pieces of music that are selected to match the client's topic. Today there are around 120 music programs on various life themes (e.g. centering oneself, loneliness, fear, security, guilt), which were developed and tested by Bonny's successors.

Music can provide security and stability, but it can also be very challenging and quickly trigger deep processes. In order to be able to deal therapeutically with this potential of music, a special multi-year further education in GIM is necessary on the basis of a previously completed comprehensive psychotherapeutic training (e.g. music therapy, art therapy, gestalt therapy, etc. plus, if necessary, the small alternative practitioner exam for legal protection) .

According to the definition of the European Association for Music and Imagery (EAMI), the term Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is the generic term for the original Bonny method as well as for its modifications and music imagination (MI), which only works with individual pieces of music. The Bonny method is used to restructure the personality and always takes place in the dyadic form. The therapeutic companion conducts a preliminary talk, which serves to determine the emotional background of the topic brought up by the client. The choice of the music program is derived from this. The client is brought into a relaxed, inner wakeful state by induction, lying on a comfortable mat. When listening to the music, the client is accompanied by non-suggestive open questions and supportive encouragement in order to be able to deepen the imagination and experience it therapeutically. The simultaneity of the music, the therapeutic accompaniment and the imaginations that arise spontaneously in the client, should lead to the client coming into contact with his resources, but also with conflict-laden material. After the listening phase, a resonance picture is usually painted in order to be able to capture what has been experienced before talking about it.

While verbal accompaniment takes place in the listening experience in the Bonny method, this is not the case with the use of music imagination (MI) in the dyadic therapy situation and when used in group therapies. MI allows a more direct approach and is therefore particularly suitable for patients who suffer from more severe disorders. Therefore, music-imaginative methods take place while sitting and possibly with open eyes. Preliminary talk, induction (also via scripts and so-called talkovers that the therapist speaks into the music), painting of resonance images and follow-up talk are the same as in the Bonny method.

application areas

GIM as the Bonny method in the dyadic form is used for depression , fears, self-doubt, eating disorders and personal crises of meaning, also for clients in decision-making and life transition situations, relationship crises, loss and separation situations, those with stressful memories and traumas, or in spiritual crises of meaning.

GIM as music imagination is used by people whose psychological structure is less developed, deficient or damaged and who can catch up on learning processes with the help of music, for example to promote body awareness and mindfulness, to expand the ability to experience, to develop creativity and imagination and the emotional To improve the ability to differentiate and regulate.

swell

  1. ↑ CH McKinney, MH Antoni, M. Kumar, FC Tims, PM McCabe: Effects of guided imagery and music (GIM) therapy on mood and cortisol in healthy adults. In: Health Psychology . Volume 16, Number 4, July 1997, pp. 390-400, ISSN  0278-6133 . PMID 9237092 .
  2. ↑ DS Burns: The effect of the bonny method of guided imagery and music on the mood and life quality of cancer patients. In: Journal of music therapy. Volume 38, Number 1, 2001, pp. 51-65, ISSN  0022-2917 . PMID 11407965 .
  3. ↑ Carola Maack: Outcomes and Processes of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) and its adaptations and Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy (PITT) for Women with Complex PTSD. (PDF) Aalborg University, Denmark, 2012, accessed November 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ruth Liesert: From Symptom to Feeling. Guided Imagery and Music for inpatient psychosomatics. 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  5. ^ European Association for Music and Imagery: Training Standards. EAMI Educational Committee, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .

literature

  • Helen L. Bonny: Music Consciousness: The Evolution of Guided Imagery and Music . Barcelona Publishers, Gilsum 2002, ISBN 1-891278-10-X .
  • Bonny, HL & Savary, LM Music and Your Mind, Listening with a new consciousness, New York 1973, Harper and Row
  • Don G. Campbell: The healing power of music - sounds for body and soul . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-426-87017-7 .
  • Kenneth E. Bruscia & Denise E. Grocke (Eds.): Guided Imagery and Music: The Bonny Method and Beyond . Barcelona Publishers, 2002. ISBN 1-891278-12-6
  • Denise Grocke & Tony Wigram: Receptive Methods in Music Therapy, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2007
  • Denise Grocke & Torben Moe (Eds.): Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) and Music Imagery Methods for Individuals and Group Therapy, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-84905-483-6
  • Edith Maria Geiger & Carola Maack: Textbook Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), Zeit Musik, Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-89500-734-7
  • Isabelle Frohne-Hagemann (Ed.): Receptive music therapy - theory and practice. Zeit Musik, Reichert, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-89500-389-1 . (Eng. Receptive Music Therapy - Theory and Practice, Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007)
  • Isabelle Frohne-Hagemann (Ed.): Guided Imagery and Music - Concepts and Clinical Applications. Zeit Musik, Reichert, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-89500-979-2
  • Ruth Liesert: From Symptom to Feeling. Guided Imagery and Music for inpatient psychosomatics, scientific. Writings of the WWU Münster. ISBN 978-3-8405-0179-1
  • Stephanie Merritt: The healing power of classical music . Kösel, Munich 1998
  • Anna E. Röcker: Music journeys as a healing path - release blockages, gain vital energy, release creativity . Goldmann, Munich 2005

Web links