This article is something of a large-scale map on which are outlined some very general thoughts about music psychotherapy. It covers an enormous area and I have sketched out fundamental concepts derived from psychoanalysis and from my work in music therapy. I view music therapy as a derivate of psychoanalysis and attempt to link the two by considering music as a bridge between unconscious and conscious processes.
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