Music Therapy Today - World Federation of Music Therapy

Abdollahnejad, M.R. (2006) The use of music therapy with substance abusers. Music Therapy Today (Online)
Vol.VII (2) 318-332. available at http://musictherapyworld.net
about his addiction. The girl has married someone else; however, they are
still in love and have a romantic relationship.
Discussion
In the course of the 25 sessions of lyric analysis and song sharing, the
participants discussed noble issues and subjects which were not at all dis-
cussed in other types of therapy sessions.
The participants proved to express their feelings and thoughts more
freely and openly without any holding back. These feelings and thoughts
included forbidden love affairs, and individual private matters which
according to the participants themselves they had never discussed with
their families and/or close friends.
It is also interesting to note that the participants were actively taking part
in the discussions which caused the others to involve themselves too so
as to exchange opinions and experiences.
There we noted a close interaction between the group members which
resulted in them learning about each others' difficulties and feeling
responsible and committed to solving each other's problems and this mat-
ter played an important role in their recovery.
In the end, we learned about the high interest of the participants in such
therapy as they heavily insisted that I increase the duration of the discus-
sions.
To conclude, I would like to mention that according to my observations
and considering the complexity of the participants' issues and problems
in expressing their feelings and thoughts and their habitual holding back
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