Harmony - Conceptual Framework in Music-Therapy and Ericksonian Hypnosis
Harmony - Conceptual Framework in Music-Therapy and Ericksonian Hypnosis

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of any therapeutic intervention is to restore the intra and interpersonal balance, assimilated to the notion of harmony. Music and Ericksonian hypnosis share in common the harmony of communication based on repetitiveness and rhythm, but also the metaphorical language that triggers representational processes based on the imaginative capacity of the human psychic. Beyond the scientific character, Ericksonian hypnosis can be considered, the incontestable proof of artistic expression, of creativity in science. Musical psychology represents the bridge between psychotherapeutic practice particularized in this work by Ericksonian hypnosis, and the artistic field. Like a discipline of interface, musical psychology has as main attribute its double membership being equally considered branch of psychology as well as branch of music. Beyond its empirical character, the interdisciplinary character of musical psychology cannot be challenged, making an important contribution to the knowledge of human behaviour in relation to music as well as to the knowledge of human abilities related to musical artistic creativity. The aspect of interest in the context of this article is represented by the anatomy of the psychotherapeutic process in the case of the combination of melotherapy with Ericksonian hypnosis.

• Details
• Contents