title: Music psychopathology. IV. The course of musical expression during music therapy with psychiatric inpatients.
abstract: The music therapeutic productions of 67 psychiatric inpatients were analyzed concerning a systematic variation in the course of therapy. The impairment of performance was not as regular as with customary music, nevertheless with growing remission it was reversible in all diagnostic subgroups. The change for the better of rhythmic and motor skills of endogenous-depressed patients was seen to the same extent as with traditional music. The polarity profile developed for the assessment of music proved meaningful in the characterization of music therapeutic utterances.
authors.affiliation: Pfalzklinik Landeck, Klingenmünster, Munich, FRG.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Steinberg
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kimmig
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Raith
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Günther
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bogner
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Timmermann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001076:Aptitude; D001143:Arousal; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D003405:Creativity; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009147:Music Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology