Music Therapy or Music Medicine?
Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsPublished 1 January 2011Open access
Christian Gold, Jaakko Erkkilä, Lars Ole Bonde, Gro Trondalen, Anna Maratos, Mike Crawford
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The authors use the review of the study by Brandes et al.
Abstract
Letter to the editor En kritisk kommentar til en artikel af V. Brandes et al (2010), som omtaler en undersøgelse som msuikterapi, selvom der tydeligvis er tale om musikmedicin. Brevet forsøger at præcisere begreberne i en international forksningskontekst.
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