The therapist taught her how to express herself, and after this was learned, a vast improvement in the areas of interactions with others was noted. Music Therapy, Vol. 10, Number 1, 1991. It says that it is no coincidence that these two words have the same root. Very simply to embrace creation, and hence creative activity, is to embrace life.
All creative acts have as their archetype the creation of the world and our presence in it.
This is obviously not realized in patients who have suicidal tendencies. Engagement in creative activity, particularly music, is therapeutic because it provides both access to and a field for the development of the individual's capacity for embracing creation and, hence, life itself. Guided Imagery and Music in a Forensic Psychiatric Setting. Music Therapy, Vol. 3, Number 1, 1989.