title: Music, psychotherapy, and the soul: thoughts on singing Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
abstract: The author draws upon the experience of singing Beethoven's Missa Solemnis to explore the feeling states aroused by religious choral music, especially the Mass. He relates them to working with patients in psychotherapy around issues of dying, death, the "oceanic feeling" of the religious experience, the human quest for knowledge, and yearning for an eternal, intelligent, and all-knowing entity in the ultimate reality.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Norman A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Clemens
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002835:Christianity / Q000523:psychology*; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*; D009147:Music Therapy; D029181:Spirituality