BRIEF REPORT: The Magical Music Shop

Abstract

Within the broad spectrum of the creative arts therapies, which include music, art, dance, and drama, there are many possibilities for therapeutic applications. All clients who seek therapy have different needs and backgrounds and different propensities for self-expression. Although many people derive benefits from the more traditional verbally based insight therapies, others find the strictures of verbal-only methods limiting. The arts therapies, particularly music, dance, and psychodrama, are action-based methods that may
be liberating and provide an openness of expression not readily available in the primarily verbal, one-to-one, therapist and client methods.