Some reflections on music therapy research: an example of collaborative enquiry

Medicine comprises science with handicraft, art, and often, with spirituality. We are talking here about the healing arts … Without intuition, fantasy, emotions, reverence, and aesthetics, a scientist would be blind; without logic, discipline, and ratio, an artist would be only a dreamer. As physicians and therapists, we need a synthesis of these. Music is the most intense means of emotional communication and it facilitates such a synthesis in many ways.