Music Therapy within Psychotherapeutic Models and its effects

Psychotherapy is a method of treatment for issues of an emotional nature where a trained individual deliberately establishes a professional relationship with the object of removing, modifying, or retarding existing symptoms, of mediating disturbed patterns of behaviour, and of encouraging healthy personality growth and development (Wolberg 1954). Music therapy fits the definition, only difference being the absence of a theoretical foundation. Merging music therapy with psychotherapeutic theories delivers music therapists with a theoretical framework to effectively use with a specific client (Wheeler, 1981).