History of therapy

The concept of music as therapy was eventually expanded by psychologists and psychiatrists into other areas of the clinical environment and eventually a professor of music education, E. Thayer Gaston, wrote a book that has become the guidepost text in the field, titled "Music in Therapy." In this book, Professor Gaston laid out three principles of music therapy:

1. the establishment of interpersonal relationships;

2. bringing about self-esteem by self-actualization [awareness of self]; and

3. utilization of the unique potential of rhythm to energize and bring order. (PP)

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