Resource-Oriented Music Therapy—The Developement of a Concept

Abstract

In this paper 1 discuss the developement of my own music–therapeutic concept in the years from 1960 to 2000. I started to develop this concept in a clinical psychotherapeutic setting. After the German reunification in 1990, new extensions emerged including applications of music therapy in social therapy and prevention and a shift from a primarily pathogenetic to a salutogenetic approach. Consequently, resource–oriented thinking and acting came to play an increasingly important role in the development of my concept.

Keywords:

• theory of music therapy after Christoph Schwabe
• methods of music therapy
• history of music therapy
• salutogenesis
• pathogenesis
• music therapy in formerly socialist countries
• musical forms
• folk songs
• music as an ideal object
• music as an action medium