Hello

 Music listening has always been part of my research interests, and a focus also for my clinical work as a music therapist for over 25 years and as accreted GIM practitioner for over 18 years. My training in dance-movement therapy and somatic movement therapy  has affected my theoretical thinking about the mind and body, as I have learnt that humans are a whole entity, where the state of the body influences the mind and vice versa. Embodied and inactive approaches strengthen the assumption of the body as the basis of thought and affect and attribute scientific value to experience-based approaches and validate major theoretical principles in creative arts, like music, art or drama therapy.

I see the past years as a huge hermeneutic circle; a never ending process of knowledge and understanding. Deep reflection is needed not only to understand the past and present but also anticipate the future.

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Anita Forsblom, PhD, MT, DMT, Supervisor