As for music, perhaps no one will deny its soothing, enlightening and shocking effects. Why it has such a great influence, many people have been exploring this mystery. Nowadays, some people have put these functions into practice and served the cause of human disease treatment. Please pay attention-a father who lost his son has been reluctant to have any more children. In music therapy, he seemed to hear the child calling his father, but he restrained himself from looking back and climbed over the top of the mountain. He saw the suddenly open sky and the endless prairie. He saw his parents and wife in the distance, waiting for him on the opposite side. So the father, who had been unwilling to have another child, called the music therapist and told him that he had decided to have another child. This is a story told by Gao Tian, an associate professor of the Central Conservatory of Music and director of the Music Therapy Research Center of the Central Conservatory of Music, in an interview with The Son of the East. From the story, it seems that we can feel the invisible power of music. However, in real life, how big is the role of music in curing human diseases and spiritual trauma? Will it also become an effective medical treatment and occupy a place in the market? As the first batch of undergraduates majoring in music therapy are about to graduate, people pay more attention to this new thing. Music Therapy Introduced to China Gao Tian was the first person to set up a music therapy major in China. After returning to China in 1997, he founded the first specialized music therapy research institution in China-the Music Therapy Research Center of the Central Conservatory of Music, and began to train graduate students. In Gao Tian's eyes, music therapy has a bright future, because it has been widely used abroad. Music means are more used in the treatment of psychiatric diseases, as well as in the fields of elderly patients, mentally retarded and autistic children. In addition, in general hospitals, music therapy also has a good analgesic effect. At an annual meeting in Germany, a surgeon reported his experimental results: playing music during surgery can reduce the dosage of anesthetic by 5%, which has a good analgesic effect; Especially in the process of postoperative recovery, music can completely replace analgesic drugs. In the clinical practice abroad, many doctors use music therapy in parturient delivery, and the results have obviously relieved the pain of parturient. "Moreover, music therapy can also play a very good auxiliary role in the treatment of other diseases." Gao Tian said that, for example, in the rehabilitation training of physiological functions of patients with stroke and hemiplegia, it has immediate effects. Therapists use the rhythm of music to help patients with walking training, and the patient's pace control ability is improved immediately. Many clinical reports show that the time of physiological function rehabilitation training with music therapy is shortened by half compared with ordinary treatment. How does music soothe the soul? Perhaps many people think that music therapy, as its name implies, is music plus medicine, so many hospitals simply play music to patients and call it music therapy. Gao Tian pointed out that this is actually a big misunderstanding, because this practice can only be music appreciation at best, and it cannot be called music therapy. Especially in psychiatric hospitals, this practice may cause patients' delusions or hallucinations, which is very dangerous. Gao Tian introduced the music therapy he used: a method called GIM therapy, also known as music-guided imagination therapy. This therapy will first spend half an hour discussing the problems with the visitors, then hypnotize them, and then start playing music, and the therapist will guide the patients to associate freely. The choice of music will be synchronized with the patient's mood, and the patient will have rich associations or memories in the atmosphere of music, and these associations or memories are related to their own problems and emotions, so visitors will have a strong emotional reaction gradually. When the emotions are released, the music will change, perhaps become clear and lyrical, and the patient's emotions and imagination will also change. After a period of emotional venting and adjustment, visitors can get out of the shadow of pain or depression. Gao Tian pointed out that this is a highly skilled treatment. At present, there are only more than 1 people with this skill in the world, and he may be the only one in Asia. Another therapy-MEDR, also known as music synchronous desensitization and reprocessing technology, is suitable for the treatment of specific traumatic events in the life experience of visitors or patients after the therapist determines them. There is a big difference between MEDR and GIM therapy, that is, the therapist will repeat this treatment process many times, but the music used will gradually change from intense and painful music to calm, lyrical, beautiful or positive music, so the experience of visitors or patients will gradually change, so that the traumatic events that were originally painful will gradually be replaced by calm, beautiful and positive experiences. Compared with foreign countries, music therapy still faces some bottlenecks in China. Music therapy conflicts with the current medical system in China. According to the current regulations, people with non-medical background are not allowed to enter the hospital for clinical treatment, so the hospital cannot set up the post of "music therapist". Even if some hospitals employ music therapists, their future job title evaluation will be a big problem. This is a problem that has been bothering Gao Tian. Yan Song, an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Psychology of Sun Yat-sen University and an assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of G? ttingen, Germany, said that foreign music therapists can work in various facilities, such as hospitals for physical and mental diseases or mental hospitals, and participate in the treatment and rehabilitation of prevention, personality disorders, addicts, anorexia and depression. Music therapists can also have their own clinics, but psychotherapy must have special vocational education and permission. Since the mid-197s, there have been various institutional trainings in the West. The government allows further trainings based on a specific therapeutic direction, such as psychoanalysis, and there are special associations to safeguard the interests of music therapists. More conflicts are between traditional medical personnel and psychotherapists. Yan Song believes that there is definitely a market for music medical care, but it is difficult to become the mainstream independently. At present, it seems that more can only be used as an auxiliary treatment, and it does not rule out the special therapeutic effect on some diseases. Gao Tian believes that music therapy has a great market. Because patients living in the hospital will be accompanied by many negative psychological and unstable emotions, and these bad psychological emotions will seriously affect the curative effect of medical treatment. It is far from enough to adjust and improve the bad psychological mood by improving the service attitude of doctors and nurses, and professionals with special skills are needed to specialize in this work. The career of music therapists embodies the humanistic care spirit of people-oriented and can effectively improve patients' psychology and emotions. Music therapy, as an auxiliary therapy, is believed to develop greatly under the background of humanistic care. It is estimated that music therapists will become a large professional group in 1 years. Related links What disease is suitable for music therapy? Gao Tian introduced that some people have a negative reaction to music because of some life experiences, so there is no need to use music therapy at this time. Music therapy has different methods for people of different ages, knowledge backgrounds and social identities, aiming at different diseases. For example, depression is the same, and some people have negative emotions caused by wrong ideas in their minds. For example, people who pursue perfection often blame themselves. At this time, perhaps therapists can better help patients change their ideas through conversation; For other patients, "I understand the truth, but I can't control my emotions", for example, because of losing relatives, lovelorn, unemployed or failed marriage, these people are more suitable for music therapy. The focus of music therapy is to regulate emotions.