The History Of Music Therapy In Psychiatry And In Mental Health: Of The Therapeutic Use Of Music To Music Therapy

Abstract

The use of music mental health care, cure or prevention of psychological pain dates back to the dawn of man. The aim of this paper is to recover aspects of therapeutic uses of music from the first moments of history to the creation of music therapy as an independent discipline, drawing parallels with the Psychiatry and Mental Health. For that was used bibliographic material with a qualitative approach. This article demonstrates how music was present in the health care of man. The improvement of such use advanced to the point of the emergence of a profession specialized in the therapeutic use of this tool: Music Therapy. Music therapy has developed different forms of intervention in mental health care. Some of these possibilities and interventional experiences will be in this article.