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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Pain, fear and joy – beyond hysteria
... sessions in which they would make up poems and set them to music, using simple popular tunes (Carrera, 2009, ... emotions: New connections in the histories of art, music and medicine. Aldershot: Ashgate. Rousseau, J. (1993). ...
The aftermath of the Hans Asperger exposé
... For example, some people who love Michael Jackson’s music no longer play it because of his likely paedophilia.’ ... to Sibelius and Wagner as being ‘composers whose music we can no longer listen to and separate from their ... in actively supporting anti-...
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 ...
‘We cannot afford to lose even one child’
... He forwent studies he had commenced in art, music, botany and biology. He was not studying as much Talmud ... have liked and had reluctantly stopped attending classical music concerts. Feuerstein died in April 2014 at the age of ...
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 ...
Looking Back: Finding the senses
... neural areas to process speech, faces, time, emotion, music, circadian rhythms, echolocation and space/navigation ...
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 ...
In search of the brain of Descartes
... Beethoven, Mozart and others exhibited ‘an organ of music’, a phrenological feature. The fate of Mozart’s ...
We all create our own language
... differences make sense if language is a skill – like music, art, or computer programming – where we expect to ...
Myers and medicine
... International Conference on Nineteenth-century music, Royal Holloway, University of London. Costall, A. ...