I started this blog over two years ago because I could not find any books that discussed how to use art in healthcare. That has just changed with the upcoming release of two new books: “Transforming the Healthcare Experience through the Arts” by Blair Sadler & Annette Ridenour and “Becoming A Corporate Art Consultant” by… Read More
Take it, it’s good for you!
Kids used to be forced to take Cod Liver oil because it’s good for you. It has been described as having the intense and obnoxious odor of rotten fish and rancid oil. Sometimes I think connoisseur’s are doing the same thing when they make the general public look at art they don’t like. They feel it is… Read More
Hitting the Right Notes To Aid the Ill
Cathy Maglaras plays the harp for a patient Mary Ishimoto Morris wrote an article for the Washington Post last week about therapeutic music. She explains: Not to be confused with music therapy, in which music is used to engage individuals or groups in pursuit of a specific treatment goal, therapeutic music is played live at… Read More
How music heals
Does music heal? If so, how? The New York Times explored this in an article (A Musician Who Performs With a Scalpel) by David Dobbs. The article explores the work that Dr. Claudius Conrad is doing on the impact of music on healing: But to the extent that music heals, how does it heal? The physiological pathways responsible… Read More
Virtual Music Therapy
I’ve been a bit preoccupied by music the last few weeks so the movie we watched tonight fit right in. It was Immortal Beloved (1994) with Gary Oldman playing Beethoven. Oldman does a great job of showing the torture of going deaf and the movie lets you get in his head and experience it with him.… Read More