The system of organizing music therapy abroad and in Russia
AUTHORS : Shusharjan S.V.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : International Academy of Integrative Medicine, Research Center for
Music Therapy and Medical Acoustic
technologies RNTSVM and K MZSR RF, Moscow, Russia
YEAR : 2005
Music is the most ancient and natural form of influence on the emotional state of a person, which many people intuitively, less often consciously, use to
relieve accumulated mental stress, calm down, and concentrate. As a cure factor, it was first officially applied in Europe in the nineteenth century, when advanced
physicians began to use music in psychiatric practice. Medicine of the 20th century, especially the second half of it, took advantage of
empirically accumulated observations and developed methods of treatment with music.
This is how music therapy was born.