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Music Therapy Today Vol. VII (2) (July) 2006 “Music is My Whole Life” - The many meanings of music in addicts’ lives Horesh, Tsvia This article is based upon a paper given at the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM sponsored by the Laurier Centre for Music Therapy Research (LCMTR) "MUSIC:The Royal Road to the Unconscious: Researching Unconscious Dimensions in Music Therapy" Introduction May 13-15, 2005, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada http://www.wlu.ca/soundeffects/symposium/2005/ I would like to introduce the people who contributed to my research and who’s personal stories of the music in their lives are interwoven in the following paper. All my interviewees agreed to be presented in my research, using pseudonyms, so as to protect their identity. 297
Horesh, T. (2006) “Music is My Whole Life” - The many meanings of music in addicts’ lives. Music Therapy Today (Online) Vol.VII (2) 291-317. available at http://musictherapyworld.net Here are some of their comments on the importance of music in their lives: • Sasha (age 25) “... the music never leaves me. Music is always with me” • Dima (age 24) “ I can’t imagine my life without music. I see my life and my music always together” • Yelena (age 28) “ I’m always with music. I live in it” • Nahum (age 43) “I have a relationship with that word – music” • Ella (age 29) “Music was like drugs” • Zohar (age 20) “If I had to go stay on a desert island , and I could take either my music or my girlfriend – I would take my music. • Boris (28) “I grew up with those songs” • Yonatan (32) “It’s amazing how the music is half and half – with some of the experiences, like milestones …on my way down, with the drugs. PREFACE When I first started to work with addicts, 10 years ago, in various rehab. centers, my thoughts on addicts and the kinds of music they listen to – were quite stereotypical. But as time went by, I learned that above and beyond the kind of music addicts may listen to, it’s important to investi- gate the quality of the relationship many of them form with their music – whether it’s electronic music, Russian criminal songs or Janis Joplin. I have come to the conclusion that music therapy with addicts should include, among other things, working with the music in their lives. The music, in therapy, then changes from being a means – to becoming the goal. In our music therapy groups we listen to, discuss, negotiate and re- evaluate the music the addicts listened to in their drug-using past, and their present period of therapy and rehab. For many of the people these sessions enable a first time opportunity to examine their relationship with music, in the secure and containing environment of the group; what emotions it evokes, what memories and life-stories it awakens. How it defines their personal, social and ethnic identity; how they use music in their daily life; how their music relates to their drug abuse and what dan- Introduction 298
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