Informative Essay: Music Therapy

Human and music are a like a friendship that cannot be separate from one to another and has been driven to our daily life. A quote from philosopher called Plato said that music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, fight to the imagination, and life to everything. From this quote show that music gives us a life and there is an alternative medicine that uses music as a treatment called as music therapy and the therapist called as a music therapist. Music therapy gives a treatment that needs a presence update condition of the patient and trained music therapies able to develop the music therapy through personal style up music including listening to live or pre-recorded music. O’Callaghan (O’Callaghan C, and Magill L., 2015) show that there are several …show more content…
In addition, the therapist able to utilize music and use verbal strategy to give the opportunity to express patient feeling and give a better communication to patients using a thought and emotion to manage their symptoms (Magill L, and O’Callaghan C., 2011). The history of music therapy was summarised in Dr. Debbie Carroll paper (Carroll, D.,2011). Music therapy was started from antiquity and ancient societies around 500.000 years ago, where a SHAMAN use music (magicoreligious) and dance to take out the devil from a sick person and able to