Music Therapy In World War One
Music therapy in WORLD WAR ONE
I have researched music therapy and how it was created and used during the first world war. I will briefly explain an overview of music therapy and post traumatic stress, background on world war one, how it was used in ww1 and why it was used and required in ww1, what trauma is, treatment of traumatic stress, history of music therapy since ww1, how it is used today - focusing on trauma and Music Therapy centres in New Zealand.
What is Music Therapy? The dictionary definition is, “the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.”
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They saw the injuries of their fellow soldiers as well as experiencing injury themselves. In the trenches soldiers saw mutilated and mangled, burned, broken, lacerated, blown up, parts of bodies. They had to live with the guilt of killing their ‘enemies’ and leaving loved ones at home and out on the battlefield. To witness these horrific things would be traumatic to any person, but these men lived it and had to add their constant fear and stress of knowing that every day, every minute could be their last. In many cases, when a soldier was injured and sent to a hospital base he would arrive with or develop strange unknown symptoms. Sadly these symposts were displaying obvious signs of Post Traumatic Stress disorder (ptsd). These could include but are not limited to feeling and looking dazed, insomnia, memory loss, terrifying nightmares, pain, emotional instability, loss of self-confidence, self-control as well as vicious “attacks of unconsciousness or of changed consciousness sometimes accompanied by convulsive movements resembling those characteristic of epileptic fits.” Unfortunately due to the lack of knowledge about the disease this was mistaken for cowardice and in some cases the soldier was shamed, …show more content…
Soldiers and veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder found music therapy to be a calming and easy way to relax and discuss their emotions. Ever since the two world wars music therapy has continued to be a researched and practiced profession now helping patients with every array of disability and emotional state. To answer my question ‘what is music therapy and how was it used in world war one’ I have found that music therapy is a complex but an extremely effective form of therapy used to clam, relax and help patients open up and heal. Music therapy is especially effective in healing patients suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. Music therapy was first used in a clinical setting during world war one, when local musicians would come in and perform for patients in war hospitals or grammarphones would be set up on hospital wings. This proved to be remarkably successful and because of this music therapy had continues to be researched, practiced and evolved to fit the needs of the 21st
I have researched music therapy and how it was created and used during the first world war. I will briefly explain an overview of music therapy and post traumatic stress, background on world war one, how it was used in ww1 and why it was used and required in ww1, what trauma is, treatment of traumatic stress, history of music therapy since ww1, how it is used today - focusing on trauma and Music Therapy centres in New Zealand.
What is Music Therapy? The dictionary definition is, “the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.”
The dictionary definition …show more content…
They saw the injuries of their fellow soldiers as well as experiencing injury themselves. In the trenches soldiers saw mutilated and mangled, burned, broken, lacerated, blown up, parts of bodies. They had to live with the guilt of killing their ‘enemies’ and leaving loved ones at home and out on the battlefield. To witness these horrific things would be traumatic to any person, but these men lived it and had to add their constant fear and stress of knowing that every day, every minute could be their last. In many cases, when a soldier was injured and sent to a hospital base he would arrive with or develop strange unknown symptoms. Sadly these symposts were displaying obvious signs of Post Traumatic Stress disorder (ptsd). These could include but are not limited to feeling and looking dazed, insomnia, memory loss, terrifying nightmares, pain, emotional instability, loss of self-confidence, self-control as well as vicious “attacks of unconsciousness or of changed consciousness sometimes accompanied by convulsive movements resembling those characteristic of epileptic fits.” Unfortunately due to the lack of knowledge about the disease this was mistaken for cowardice and in some cases the soldier was shamed, …show more content…
Soldiers and veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder found music therapy to be a calming and easy way to relax and discuss their emotions. Ever since the two world wars music therapy has continued to be a researched and practiced profession now helping patients with every array of disability and emotional state. To answer my question ‘what is music therapy and how was it used in world war one’ I have found that music therapy is a complex but an extremely effective form of therapy used to clam, relax and help patients open up and heal. Music therapy is especially effective in healing patients suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. Music therapy was first used in a clinical setting during world war one, when local musicians would come in and perform for patients in war hospitals or grammarphones would be set up on hospital wings. This proved to be remarkably successful and because of this music therapy had continues to be researched, practiced and evolved to fit the needs of the 21st