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The harmonic healing houses of Turkey
... were used as places of education in the Ottoman Empire. Music and the sound of nature were used as a treatment, ... the most well-known method was the use of sounds and music. They were considered a strategic tool, with particular ... to this notion and stated...
Music to our ears
... One ubiquitous aspect of everyday auditory environments is music. Music has a range of powerful physical, social, and emotional ... for example, Raymond MacDonald and colleagues’ 2012 book Music, Health and Wellbeing ). It is surprising,...
John Booth Davies 1944-2017
... years, was a psychologist with a wide range of interests: music, addiction, human factors and safety. He was born near ... Big Band for many years. His first book T he Psychology of Music (1978) dealt largely with the cognitive psychology of music...
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...
Unpleasant reactions to ‘music’
... (February 2015)? I have always felt a connection between music and a sense of space. Listening to pieces in two parts ... correct term for it. It occurs when I hear some sounds or music created by electronic means. Currently when the BBC ... as queasy. The same...
A curveball angle
... and interact. Let us take this third suggestion first. Music in three time ‘projects itself’ onto curves of ... and vision (as in the kite flying of Ray Bethell) while music in four or two time hearkens unto marching and jumping. ... is increasingly normative...
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...
A colourful life, an inspiration, and living legend
... the founders of cognitive neuroscience. Her father was a music critic for the Manchester Guardian who also gave piano ... result that she later recalled her home was filled with music, books on art, and many of the classics. She also began ...
Forum
... 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)....
Allan McNeill 1958-2016
... important. One thing that defined Allan was his love of music. In his teenage years and early twenties he had an ... were too good to let them get lost in the jungle of the music business and he became their manager. Later, Allan went ...
William M. Cheyne 1938-2020
... Outside of academia, Bill’s great love was music, nurtured during his early years. He particularly loved ... Wagner, on whom he was something of an authority); choral music; and the traditional music of North-East Scotland. He was a fine singer...
Barry Frost 1926-2020
... him as a mentor. He was passionate about classical music particularly of the Romantic period and his record ... parties were legendary for mixing academic conversation, music, wine and good, often exotic, food cooked at home. ...
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...
Peter Weinreich 1939-2016
... many interests outside of academia, including gardening, music, and politics. He was an avid supporter of the arts and keenly pursued his love of fine art, literature and music, frequenting theatre wherever or whenever he could. ... of him: his imposing and...
Donald Campbell (1940-2019)
... to drink copious amounts of wine and beer. A lover of music, both classical and jazz, Donnie went regularly with friends to classical music concerts in Birmingham, Oxford and London, and to jazz ...
Geoffrey Stephenson 1939-2021
... the youngest of three boys in a family of enthusiasts for music, cricket and sailing. After the war they moved to North ... children and grandchildren, his enthusiasm for classical music (he was an excellent violinist and enjoyed choral ...
Professor Glyn Humphreys 1954-2016
... trips overseas, the weddings and birthdays, the children, music, food and laughter. Glyn and his wife and collaborator ... and much-liked member of the community. He loved music, swimming, and wining and dining with friends and ...
Forum
... 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 ...
Letters
... 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 ...
Something about nothing
... to the moves, which follow the light and shade in the music; the highs and lows from one phrase to another. The ...
Zander Wedderburn 1935-2017
... Presbyterian Church, and were both keen on folk music. Zander played the guitar and sang with a deep voice at ...
Paul Thorne 1938-2019
... least possible fuss. And that is what we gave him, with music he loved, laughter and tears. But we would like to ...