Open Access"Music Therapy is Changing" and So Am I: Reconstructing the Identity of A Music Therapist
Author(s) -
Yuji Igari
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v4i3.190
Subject(s) - music therapy , identity (music) , psychology , psychotherapist , aesthetics , personal identity , psychoanalysis , social psychology , art , self
Identity is an important aspect for music therapists, both professionally and personally. This is a story of how one music therapist reconstructed his professional and personal identity, as a social creature and a musician, through the encounter with new theories in music therapy.