Music therapy as a factor of influence on psycho-emotional state of a personality
Abstract
The article is dedicated to studying music therapy as health and developing approach to improving psycho-emotional personality’s state. Music therapy is a systemic using of music for treatment psychological and psycho-social aspects of a disease or disorders. Music can generate psychic and somatic processes in a human organism. When a person fills internally hearing a piece of music, certain associations appear and mood with emotions are being changed. Music influences on vegetative processes – activity of internal organs and systems, metabolism and functional state of a body. Thus, music as a psychophysiological irritant combine’s ability for complex, diversified in power and direction influence on a personality. Despite the civilization process music has not lost its power to cause positive action on a personality, but vice versa emphasized its music-therapeutic possibilities which are able to protect a person from stress situations. It has been proved that healing properties of music and its actuality since deep antiquity up to nowadays. It is defined that from many various viewpoints on music therapy and its influence on treatment and disease prevention scientists from many countries in more details pay attention to this problem. It is well known that music therapy positively influences on formation and development of harmonious personality through the influence on emotional and sensual sphere, psychophysiological state. It is established that changes which happen in psychical development of an individual can be adjusted and motivated by music therapeutic means for achieving medical results. The importance of healing properties of classic music has been characterized. In XXth century music therapy attained a considerable significance in a society. After examining music mentality of Ukrainian nation we have come to the conclusions that more detailed studying of the problem by in Ukrainian researchers is needed. In the contest of music-therapeutic influence selection of musical works with the purpose to recover and harmony psycho-emotional state of a personality has been presented.
