Music therapists began to be introduced to China in 198s. They used all kinds of musical activities, including listening, singing, playing and rhythm, to promote health through music. Looking at the subject goal, application field, operation method and development trend of contemporary music therapy at home and abroad, music therapy has gone far beyond the subject field of applied psychology, that is to say, music therapy is not just a branch of psychotherapy as most people think.

It is an independent discipline involving a wider range, so the above definition of Brucia can be used as a more comprehensive definition of music psychology rather than a comprehensive definition of music therapy.

Many scientific research results have also proved that music therapy not only has psychological effects, but also has obvious physiological effects, such as music prenatal education; Among the ways of music therapy, music electrotherapy, the combination of music and acupuncture, music qigong therapy, flute therapy and so on. It shows that the subject of music therapy has gone beyond the application scope of psychology, and the application scope of music therapy involves not only psychology, medicine and musicology, but also pedagogy and even many unknown scientific fields.

The clinical research of music therapeutics also shows that its discipline itself does not lie in studying the relationship with other disciplines' theories, but in the clinical treatment methods and therapeutic effects of music as a therapeutic means, so we can't simply define music therapeutics as a comprehensive discipline integrating psychology, medicine and musicology, at least we can think that such a definition is not comprehensive for music therapeutics itself. "