MUSIC AS A TREATMENT CHANNEL OF ADOLESCENT DESTRUCTIVITY

A young person showing strong destructive symptoms often has too much hatred toward adults, other authorities, and society for the "voice of reason " to penetrate or reach some fixed point in his or her psyche. Music, however, activateq emotions raising problems of the real field of life to be dealt with in symbolic form. This paper discusses the theory and practice of music therapy in the treatment of institutionalized adolescents. Cognitive developmental psychology and the theories of Piaget, Freud, and Lewin are examined. Sections are: "Is Music an Early Form of Thinking?"