ABSTRACT
This chapter primarily describes art therapy and music therapy, which are two of the arts therapies. The arts therapies consist of art therapy, music therapy and dance therapy. (Note that psychodrama is not conventionally considered to be one of the arts therapies.) Although the current body of solid research for creative arts therapies is small compared with that of more traditional medical specialties, the arts therapies are now validating their research through more controlled experimental and descriptive studies.1 Scientific studies of some of the physical and cerebral effects of music are described in this chapter. At the end of the chapter there is a very brief mention of a few other individual therapies. It should be noted that although the therapies mentioned in this chapter may be used on an individual basis, some of them, such as music therapy, may also often be used in group settings.
