Open AccessSupportive Music and Imagery Method
Author(s) -
Sumi Paik-Maier
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v10i3.453
Subject(s) - psychology , resource (disambiguation) , guided imagery , musical , music therapy , id, ego and super ego , computer science , visual arts , applied psychology , art , social psychology , psychotherapist , anxiety , computer network , psychiatry
The Supportive Music and Imagery Method is derived from the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM). It uses one piece of pre-recorded music that is short and simple in all musical elements and non-classical music is often used.It aims at enhancing one’s ego by supporting one’s positive resource rather than exploring problems and issues. It is containing and highly structured compared to BMGIM and it focuses on the here-and-now.I will introduce how the SMI method is conducted by illustrating a few case examples supervised by me and conducted by graduates and trainees of the Music and Imagery training in Korea.