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. The importance of music therapy and other art or movement therapies became clear following the realization that strictly verbal therapy has a limited value to the patient.
Music is an essential part of all suicidal therapies.
A Phenomenological Perspective of Music Therapy. Music Therapy, Vol. 8, Number 1 1989. This is an article about a session involving a terminally ill patient named Sara. Sara had an alcoholic for a husband and two children, a boy and a girl who was autistic.