The shaman's use of animal language, or pre-literate languages, and other ritualistic methods of communication, like music and drumming, have parallels in the 'different space' created by the therapist in his or her office. In therapy, different forms of communication, the formulaic 'text' of conventional analysis, the release of drumming, or rhythmic pounding, and music play therapy for small children may be used to help the patient touch base with his or her emotions. But while the shaman channels the stories of others, as a tribal storyteller who uses different forms of communication for a collective, therapists help patients tell stories about their daily live struggles on an individual basis.
For example, sometimes patient's life stories are ineffectual, like 'I am a failure' or 'my mother never loved me.' (Hart, p.203) Although the therapist provides a kind of objective voice, and directs the person's speech, even the environment of the therapeutic room though alternative forms of therapy, the therapist does not enter into the shamanic trance, where he or she lets go of the body attached to the self, and returns, often with the aid of music, nor does the patient seek to come back seeking insight for anything other than his or her own life story, not the life story of the tribe. (Hart, p.204) Music can provide a source of common connection, but the common connection is not necessarily the goal of therapy, at least not out side of the Western cultural unit of the couple or family.
This contrast between the individualism of the West and the collectivism of the shaman's cultures does not mean that there are not parallels between the truth-seeking status of both therapists and patients in the formalized processes of therapy. For example, shamans have often cured themselves, come back, and use the...
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This is particularly the case in elderly patients who suffer form various debilitating diseases and conditions, where it has been found that music therapy produces positive outcomes. References Anatomy of Melancholy. Retrieved April 8, 2008, at http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/robert/melancholy/S2.2.6.html Bhat, M. Udupa S. (2003) the Evolution, Appreciation and Representation of Music. MCGILL JOURNAL of MEDICINE, 7(2), pp. 190 -195. Black bile. Retrieved April 8, 2008, at http://www.answers.com/topic/melancholia. Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Biomedicine. Retrieved April 9,
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