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Music therapy - The story of Sophie
Identifier
022272
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Dr Peregrine Horden – Musical solutions [in Music as Medicine]
… consider Sophie. At four months of age she was found to have difficulties with her fine and coarse motor control (she could not crawl or pull herself up to stand). Although her hearing was normal, she also failed to speak. She played alone seemingly immune to distraction. No organic causes could be traced for any of this.
In her first session with a music therapist she was very anxious and played a small bell and chime bar almost inaudibly. By the fifth session, however, she was playing a drum in rhythms loosely related to those of the therapist's improvisation. Her parents began to find her freer and more sociable in daily life: she spoke in a babble but could remember words and was keen to communicate. In the remaining therapy sessions her improvisational skills developed considerably. Concurrently, her awareness of her surroundings and her independence of action increased in proportion.
The source of the experience
Healer otherConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Autism, savantism and other forms of PDDBrain damage
Listening to beating sounds
Listening to music