OBJECTIVES:
Music therapy is a specialty that uses music and musical activities to meet the physical, psychological, social and mental needs of individuals.
Music, which is an effective and powerful communication tool in human life, affects people not only when the mental structure is bad but also when it is good. Music speaks to human emotions and thoughts with its unique language, structure and expression elements.
- In an easy and understandable definition, music is the art that allows people to express themselves with sounds. Music has its own language and for this reason, it has a universal dimension and the only common language in the world is music. Listening to music stimulates and develops one's sense of aesthetics and intuition of rhythm and awakens the strong emotions within. Music increases the individual's excitement for life. Music relaxes, revitalizes, calms and enriches the human side of a person. People who listen to music become happier and more harmonious members of society. Many people can express themselves better through music and reveal their feelings through music. Therefore, music is also used for communication purposes.
- Music stimulates the central nervous system and the centers in the cerebral cortex related to thinking, learning, speech and body control and supports developments in these areas. Music plays a role in relaxing the brain and alleviating hormonal irregularities in young people with depression. Music has an effect on hormones by increasing or decreasing stress hormones, depending on its style and form.
- Music therapy is a specialty that uses music and musical activities to meet the physical, psychological, social and mental needs of individuals.
In modern times, the first music therapy application was included in the treatment programs at the Michigan State Hospital in 1947. Since 1949, music therapy has been practiced in France. After World War II, a music therapy institute was established in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1977, the United States recognized music therapy as a science. Music therapy has been used effectively in psychiatry-based illnesses since the 1950s. Today, music therapy practices are carried out in many clinics, research centers, art centers, hospitals, kindergartens and independent areas in the USA and other countries.
Today, many research studies are being conducted with music therapy in Turkey, Europe and the United States. Music therapy was recognized as a specialty by the US Music Therapy Association in 1997, and many scientific studies have been conducted on music therapy. Today, the therapy is practiced in its advanced form in many health centers in Turkey, Europe and the United States.
Uskudar University and NPISTANBULBrain Hospital, which is the first and only university of psychology-psychiatry in Turkey, continues many studies in the field of occupational therapy. In this sense, our center aims to enrich the various methods used in contemporary medicine, psychology and psychiatry in music therapy with applications and to conduct research that contributes to education and training. In this context, by determining the types of music suitable for the sociocultural structure of the patients, determining the frequency of the electrical rhythm of the brain after determining the brain map of the person with brain electroencephalogram (EEG) and determining the music that will bring this frequency to normal limits; taking into account that religious motifs are also effective in the treatment, the application of appropriate music to the patient will be carried out in the next stage with the researches. While choosing the appropriate music, it is planned to use millions of previously recorded works. Üsküdar University Music Therapy Application and Research Center; It is aimed to make a great contribution to the science of psychology and psychiatry.
FIELDS OF ACTIVITY:
It is used as a complementary method in clinical areas such as neurology, cardiology, oncology, psychiatry and in the treatment of individuals with special needs. In addition, music therapy has an important place in the treatment of alcohol and substance addiction.
- Scientific research has shown that classical Turkish music and classical western music have a healing effect on diseases.
- In music therapy, musical elements such as rhythm, melody and harmony are used for therapeutic purposes. Music has a positive effect on the patient's nervous and endocrine system and enables the emergence of meaningful reactions in emotions and thoughts, the patient takes an active role in the therapy process by making music, develops talent, increases self-confidence and engages in a meaningful endeavor.
- The word "music therapy" is composed of the words "music" and "therapy". The word "therapy" is a branch of medicine that teaches the necessary precautions and remedies for the care and treatment of patients and originated from the Greek word and was adopted.
- Music therapy opens the channels of communication,
- Provides treatment effects,
- It is the branch that explores sound-human unity and music, using movement, sound and music to achieve psycho-prophylactic (soul-protective) effects and rehabilitation both in the individual and in the community, nourishing not only the soul but also the intellect.
- It provides integration and harmony between body and mind.
- Depending on the type of music, you can activate different parts of your brain. Thus, music can reactivate some parts of the brain that have lost their function as a result of neurological disorders or emotional disorders.
- Music is known to have a positive effect on physiological events such as blood pressure, respiratory rhythm, respiratory quality and pulse rate. Over time, we can train the damaged parts of our brain with music.
- The ears act as a source of electrical recharging of the brain. Decreased electrical energy in the brain cells causes impaired attention and exhaustion. In this case, the brain needs to be recharged like a computer. One of the ways of recharging the brain cells with energy is to realize the treatment with music therapy method.