MUSIK FÖR HÄLSA En intervjustudie om hur musikterapi upplevs och uppfattas ur ett individperspektiv

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to investigate how individuals use music for therapeutic purposes that has affected their health. Issues that relate to music therapy as treatment, music as a tool for everyday life and music as a tool for positioning themselves to their world. The essay also discusses what happens in the body when taking sound impulses and links this with thoughts about what happens to the individual’s perceived health when consuming music. One focus throughout the essay is affinity, which is discussed from different perspectives. How the music makes the individual feel connected with the person behind the music or that the music is a way of creating social circles, but also how hormones can contribute to a greater sense of community. This is explained by the fact that the essay is phenomenologically related and uses recurring concepts of typifications, world of life and togetherness. The essay is an inductive study and its purpose is to highlight the experience of the informants of the study and the essay also gets an emic approach.