The Recognition and Acceptance of Mood in Music by Psychotic Patients

Simón, Benjamín Salvador; Holzberg, Jules D.; Alessi, Salvatore L.; Garrity, Daniel A.

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“…The manic psychotics also rate the music as almost significantly less gay. As these two diagnostic groups represent patients with opposite prevailing moods, it is reasonable to assume that their ratings are determined by some common psychopathological factor rather than "prevailing mood" as was proposed in the study by Simon et al (1951). There are authors who underline the fact that opposite traits in mania and depression are more superficial but that fundamental disturbances may be common in the two phases of the illness (Kisker et al (1972a)).…”

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Emotional experience of music by psychiatric patients compared with normal subjects

Nielzén¹,

Cesarec²

1982

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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Psychiatric patients (n = 107) and normal subjects (n = 100) were exposed to seven newly composed pieces of music orchestrated for a small symphony orchestra. The patients were divided into seven subgroups: schizophrenic, depressive and manic psychosis; obsessive, depressive, anxiety and hysterical neurosis. All subjects rated the music on semantic differential scales describing three factors of emotional experience: tension-relaxation, gaiety-gloom and attraction-repulsion. The ratings by patients in the different groups were compared with those by the normal subjects. Expressiveness in music was found to be communicated to patients in the same relative way as to normals. However, in the various diagnostic groups, several marked differences in experience were demonstrated. The main findings were that schizophrenic psychotics experienced the music as more attractive, while depressive and anxiety neurotics experienced it as less attractive, than normals. Depressive and manic psychotics experienced the music as less gay. Obsessive neurotics seem to be more sensitive to tension than normals.

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“…Other circumstances may also contribute to the result. Simon et al (1951) bring up impaired ego-functioning as an example of a factor influencing emotional experiences in schizophrenics.…”

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Emotional experience of music by psychiatric patients compared with normal subjects

Nielzén¹,

Cesarec²

1982

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…Healey also reported a clinical observation confirmed by others (Simon, Holzberg, Alessi, & Garrity, 1951;)-that the ability to appreciate music can remain relatively intact during times of severe psychological disorder.…”

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The Role of Music in Child Development

Peery¹,

Peery²

1987

Music and Child Development

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“…In a pivotal study, Simon, Holzberg, Alessi, and Garrity (1951) asked patients with schizophrenia, manic psychosis, and depressive psychosis, as well as a control group, to listen to short recordings of music played on a spinet, a type of harpsichord, and classify them by the sadness or happiness that they may express. Although all groups were reported to succeed in discriminating between musical valences, controls made significantly fewer errors.…”

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Perception and experience of musical emotions in schizophrenia

Keřková

2018

Psychology of Music

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The schizophrenic disturbance of affective processing has seen a welcome revival in academic inquiry. However, laboratory research on emotion in schizophrenia has largely drawn on facial and prosodic stimuli and the suitability of this practice has been questioned. This article aims to explore the utility of musical material, and to motivate its use in research on emotion in schizophrenia. The article lists some of the empirical advantages of musical material and describes key auditory and affective deficits which could alter musical emotions in schizophrenia. Existing findings pertaining to the perception and experience of musical arousal and valence in schizophrenia are reviewed and compared with nonmusical findings. Results suggest that schizophrenia affects the recognition of both musical and nonmusical emotions. However, musical and nonmusical emotions appear to differ in that: 1) musical emotions are more arousing, 2) negative musical emotions stimulate approach tendencies, and 3) both the perception and experience of musical emotions share these characteristics. These differences are presently unexplained and warrant further investigation. An improvement in the use of musical material in research on emotion in schizophrenia is justified.

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The Recognition and Acceptance of Mood in Music by Psychotic Patients

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Emotional experience of music by psychiatric patients compared with normal subjects

Emotional experience of music by psychiatric patients compared with normal subjects

The Role of Music in Child Development

Perception and experience of musical emotions in schizophrenia

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