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Assessing the Effects of Music Listening on Psychobiological Stress in Daily Life
Published on: February 2, 2017
Injury and pain in performing musicians: A psychodynamic diagnosis
1Julnage@umich.edu
Abstract:
In recent years, there has been increased attention to the physical complaints of musical performers. Lockwood (1989) reviewed ailments encountered by physicians who treat musicians and maintained that "complaints of purely psychic origin are very unusual" (p. 225). The author disagrees with Lockwood's position. This article explores the multiple meanings of pain and injury in musicians. Clinical material illustrates how dynamic unconscious phenomena influence the musical performer's somatic complaints.
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