The Psyche of a active Musician (selected problematic areas)

The thesis contains a short introduction which describes the significance of music for human psyche. The focus is further placed on the research of the influence of Mozart?s compositions on students and children. The following chapter brings a concise characterisation of musical imagination, its subtypes and the heightened level of this imagination in musicians. The author is also concerned with the issues of musical aptitude, its basic characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of musical talent and the comparison between the brains of musicians and people of other professions. In the following chapters, the author focuses on the terms absolute pitch and synaesthesia, explicating their meaning, describing their specific features and analysing conditions of their origin as well as possible reasons for their future deterioration. The thesis also addresses the issue of potentially negative influences of music on human psyche, i.e. catchiness of some melodies and musical hallucinations, as well as the issue of dystonia in musicians, its causes and possible methods of treatment. The following chapters describe the effect of the so-called ?phantom hand?, the principle of stereophonic hearing and the consequences of its loss. The conclusion contains a brief summary of the thesis and the reasons behind the choice of thi