“I am a psychotherapeutically oriented music therapist”: theory construction and its influence on professional identity formation under the example of the Viennese School of Music Therapy

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Music therapists provide a variety of definitions about what music therapy is and how it is used, dependent on its development of theory construction, and the paradigms of the therapeutic community. Within the Viennese School of Music Therapy a psychotherapeutic approach is the leading paradigm, which has been determining the music therapeutic working modes, reflexions and terminology of the School since the 1980s. Two surveys have shown that the psychotherapeutic paradigm is able to strengthen as well as weaken concurrently one's music therapeutic identity. This author assumes that the upcoming obstructive effect on the professional identity formation can be referred to a missing reflexion of the musical frame of references in music therapy, and their connections to the psychotherapeutic mindsets within the present generation of music therapists. Accordingly, this article aims to define correlating paradigms between the musical background theories and the psychotherapeutic orientation within the Viennese music therapy due to a historical analysis of those theory constructions serving as main identification models within the last 50 years. Five correlating paradigms that link musical and psychotherapeutic backgrounds are going to be itemized. They are able to show essential mindsets in relationship-oriented music therapy.View full textDownload full textKeywordsViennese School of Music Therapy, theory construction, identity formation, psychotherapeutic paradigm, relationship-orientation, impact of musicRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08098131003768115