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Looking back: Creative genius in classical music
This article is about creativity in music. And not just any variety – it’s about the rarer ... inquiries concerning creative genius in classical music. Last half of the 19th century The first ... some psychologists are also aficionados of classical music...
Can we have a Happy Christmas?
... tend to be highest at the time of year when Christmas music is being played, with this effect enhanced when the music played is paired with Christmas scent (Spangenberg et ... Christmas: The interactive effects of ambient scent and music in a...
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... to this condition in the pages of The Psychologist (‘Music – shelter for the frazzled mind?’, December 2009). ... on a task to identify emotional depiction within music (which apparently does not detract from their appreciation of the music)....
The window in the laboratory
... a laboratory drama. The scenario A deep interest in film, music and the arts permeates Stanley Milgram’s writings. ... Milgram has described her husband’s passion for music, the visual arts, opera and film and his later ... and is Research Director at the...
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... voice, bonding, and parent-soothing? Hospitals now give music CDs to new parents to soothe infants; there are plenty ... arrive at school hardly talking; teenagers are preferring music (Yule, 2008); swearing is generally reduced to one word ... and obscuring...
Letters: austerity and more
... menu, the dish of the day, and more drinks. Look out for music: this increases the degree of drink-buying. Music with prosocial lyrics is the most devious of the lot: ... Better still, have someone else pay. Speaking of music, pay close...
Are understandings of mental illness mired in the past?
... attacked and brain-injured in the street and now hears music from his childhood whenever a generalised seizure is ... the development of seizures, to the hearing of childhood music, to the worries about the future, is perfectly ...
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... psychological responsibility will change the mood music; it’ll make people think; it’ll make psychology ... care you like, then nurses do talking therapies now. Music therapy, art therapy, psychotherapy, counselling ...
Looking back: The Avengers of psychology
... place to be, but few know that this was true not only for music, art and fashion, but also for psychology. At the ...
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... column: Beyond boundaries Nature versus nurture is a lie. Music is not melody versus rhythm, wine is not grapes versus ... age of 66. She was an extraordinary woman. Jolanta studied music in Warsaw, obtaining her MA in Piano Performance in ... patients. Among...
Letters
... is, to a skilled researcher, like a piece of sheet music is to a skilled musician. However, what if we could ... content. If psychology can use these tools, then our sheet music may be heard much more loudly and clearly than before. ...
Dancing plagues and mass hysteria
... tasteless meals, pillow-less beds and evenings bereft of music and conversation. Hence the arrival of reformist Mother ... London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Rouget, G. (1985). Music and trance: A theory of the relations between music and...
The man, his passions and motivations
... short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’. Victor wrote the music and Stanley the libretto. After finishing work on the ...
Looking Back: A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry
... and other forms of therapy involving art and music. In 1952 he visited Switzerland where he also met ...
Looking back: Rewriting the rest cure in The Secret Garden
... a cheerful band of beggars and thieves, including a former music hall dancer with a redemptive creed. She explains to ...
Letters
... fashion, film and video, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts, publishing, software and computer ... for him, to establish himself as performer and creator of music – and, then, agreeing with the ‘social’ gurus, to ...
Letters: the assisted dying debate
... fashion, film and video, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts, publishing, software and computer ... for him, to establish himself as performer and creator of music – and, then, agreeing with the ‘social’ gurus, to ...
Looking Back: Finding the senses
... neural areas to process speech, faces, time, emotion, music, circadian rhythms, echolocation and space/navigation ...
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... would there be any great works of literature, poetry or music? The researchers state that their results indicate that ...
Spearman and the Importance of Archives
... ability to mentally recall a piece of instrumental music while ‘No movements of his voice-muscles accompany ...
Looking Back: The house of cure
... such as dusting, watering plants, sewing and darning. Music, with its therapeutic potential, appears to have taken ...
Myers and medicine
... International Conference on Nineteenth-century music, Royal Holloway, University of London. Costall, A. ...
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... College, he was more interested in geology and classical music than mainstream studies. On demobilisation from the ...
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... a Fellow of the Royal Society as one of his students. The music was often loud, there was great food and the alcohol ...
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... without some comment on his exquisite taste in classical music, painting, poetry, food and wine. Leslie was a ...