14 DAY TRIAL // Concordia University investigator Sandra Curtis, PhD, is using music to enter into a state of deep psychological dialogue with her patients. Music therapy has thus far proven effective for palliative care patients and abused children, among others.
The approach was also very effective in improving the quality of life for women who were abused at home, or for people who are subjected to stress, or have problems, at work, PsychCentral reports.
Details of how her approach works have been published in a paper called “Music therapy and social justice: a personal journey,” which appears in a recent issue of the journal The Arts in Psychotherapy.
“This type of therapy often presents work with an explicit focus on social justice for women, children and other marginalized people but it can also expand to address such global issues as war and the environment with a feminist understanding of their impact on marginalized people worldwide,” Curtis explains.