Jan 25 2008
Music therapy capable of healing the mind
Jan 25: Music in one form or the other remains as a delight right from the origin of mankind. It touches our mind and it has the ability to heal the wounds of our mind. A recent study has added more value to this belief as it shows that music therapy will help patients to overcome mental problems like depression and there by help them to improve, restore and maintain health.
According to a statistics about 121 million people world wide are suffering from depression. The indication of that can be seen in their changing attitudes like disturbed appetite, sleep patterns and overall functioning of the body and the inferior feeling of low self-esteem, worthlessness and guilt. These attitudes pave way for suicide and are linked with 1 million deaths a year. This gives a clear picture about the significance of this study.
Drugs and psychotherapy are the common treatment procedures adopted by the physicians. But a team of Cochrane Researchers decided to study about the impact of music on the behaviour pattern of this kind of patients. After undergoing a thorough study they found five researches that match their criteria from the international literature. Four of the study showed that there is reduction in the symptoms of depression among patients who underwent music therapy. The fifth study did not find this effect.
Anna Maratos, the lead author of the research and an art therapist who works in the central and Northwest London Foundation NHS Trust said: “The present study has shed light on to the fact that the music therapy could improve the mood of the patient. While the evidence came from few small studies and it is the area that have wider scope for further study. The detailed study into this topic will give a clear idea about the form of music that is effective for this purpose.”
A deep understanding of the extent of impact of music on healing psychological problems will help the therapist to handle this effectively for the treatment of patients. GHT
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