Clinical psychology in the new century aims to achieve psychological well-being. In recent decades, several scientific models explaining well-being have been developed, traceable to two major basic conceptions of well-being: hedonic and eudaimonic. One of the most relevant was developed by Carol Ryff (1989) and recognizes that well-being is not a simple phenomenon, but results from optimal psychological functioning across six distinct dimensions. From a clinical point of view, Ryff’s model has found several applications. The Well-being Therapy protocol integrates Ryff’s multidimensional conception into a cognitive-behavioral therapeutic framework oriented towards optimizing psychological functioning.
In parallel, in the field of Music Therapy, tools have been developed aimed at the psychological growth of human beings through self-exploration, self-understanding, experimentation, and the strengthening of their own psycho-physical resources. Helping the patient to explore and gain awareness from within their own emotions, insight, is perhaps the first and deepest objective that a music therapist sets for themselves. Since insight is the axis around which techniques like Well-being Therapy aim to achieve greater psychological well-being, it is intuitive to assume that an intersection with Music Therapy could significantly increase the scope of these techniques.
This is the introduction to Albert Asero’s Master’s thesis, a student of ISEP’s Master in Music Therapy. Its objective is precisely to propose a possible intersection between the cognitive-behavioral protocol Well-being Therapy and the insight technique through musical audition in a dream-like state proposed by the so-called Guided Imagery and Music (GIM).
Download the thesis Music Therapy in the Well-Being Therapy protocol.