Psychodynamic therapy perspective - introduction
How Music Can Change Your Life
Did you ever wonder how music works? This course provides free video, audio and journal resources that explain six basic principles about how music can influence individual and community health and wellbeing. From biology and neuroscience, to psychotherapy and politics, the ways we engage with music can make all the difference. Music has always played an integral role in the lives of individuals and communities all around the globe. This course explores the ways that music can be used to achieve positive changes with a particular emphasis on the most vulnerable persons. Six different understandings will be explored, each with their own set of values and assumptions. The greatest thinkers in each approach believe that their way of explaining the power of music is right, but we will show that understanding music in its entirety delivers the best results in each unique circumstance. Once we understand the various ways that music can change the world, we can make informed decisions about how best to employ its extraordinary power. Learners who engage in this MOOC can expect to both deepen and broaden their understanding of how music can be used with individuals, groups and communities. Specifically: • To distinguish between how music works on the body, in the brain, through the unconscious, for bonding, as political action and in reflecting culture, • To design practical programs that utilise music to support individuals, groups and communities based on examples shared in the 'on-site' case studies. View the MOOC promotional video here: http://tinyurl.com/jnde3w3
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How can music reflect the psyche to improve mental health?
Music can be a powerful way to explore and comprehend our deepest emotions. When used in psychoanalysis, this can lead to rich experiences that may even reveal aspects of our unconscious world that can be processed within the safety of the therapeutic relationship. Within the field of music therapy, practitioners often debate the relative merits of free improvisation on instruments in comparison to using the preferred songs of clients in therapy. Both afford opportunities to deepen our understanding of ourselves and our relationships to others, and music more generally can be used as a health resource that travels with us as we recover from being acutely unwell and continue the journey of life.
Unit 3 introduction - part 1 of 28:58
Psychodynamic therapy perspective - introduction1:39
Psychodynamic therapy perspective9:01
Introducing Benedikte Scheiby1:59
The work of Mary Priestley6:02
Individual music therapy11:27
Music and emotions7:51
Research and theoretical foundations14:33
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Today we're in home territory at the University of Melbourne where this MOOC has been developed. The University of Melbourne is host to the Master of Music Therapy program which is one of the training courses available in Australia where people can study to become a qualified or registered music therapist. This unit explores how music can reflect the psyche to improve mental health. As discussed in the podcast and articles for this unit, mental health is something that affects everyone in different ways, and mental illness is a global health problem. Music therapists work in many different types of mental health settings, using music as a way to engage with and support individuals to process mental health issues. What you will see today are master of music therapy students at the University of Melbourne learning how to use music to promote mental health. As a part of their studies, they engage in experiential group work together to better understand what it feels like to be part of the processes that they will later facilitate. Today, these students have volunteered for us to film their group in which they use music improvisation with their lecturer, Jason, who is a registered music therapist who also works in mental health settings. We'll get a chance to see what group improvisation looks like in practice and hear from the students, or group members, about the aims behind using music in this way. While you're watching, try to take note of the different ways that you could apply these principles to your relationship with music and your own mental health.