| Imagery Communication Psychotherapy (ICP) has been developed for 20 years and a large number of clinical trials have proved that Imagery Communication Psychotherapy is an effective method of psychological counseling. "Imagery" is the basic unit of ICP while traditional Chinese medicine is also the "imagery" of the medical. ICP can be a good combination of traditional Chinese Medicine. But in the study of ICP, there are a lot of research on the visual imagery, which is rarely used in the auditory imagery. Therefore, this study aims to explore and verify the traditional Chinese medicine theory by combining the ICP with Five Element Music.This research includes empirical research and case study. The empirical study takes 60 college students as subjects who listened to Five Element Music and were stimulated to imagine, and then they filled in SCL-90 questionnaire to investigate the relationship between music imagery and mental health. The study found:(1) Five Element Music can cause imagery, which conforms to the description of traditional Chinese Medicine. (2) There was a significant correlation between Five Element Music recognition and mental health.The case study was selected to be representative of the subjects from the empirical study, including two case interviews and a psychological counseling. The purpose of the study was to explore the effect of Five Element Music in the ICP. The study found:(1) Five Element Music can provide the clients with the initial imagery; (2) the relationship between the imagery recognition and psychological symptoms is obvious, the clients’imagery recognition can guide psychological diagnosis; (3) Five Element Music can directly interfere with the symptoms and there will be the transformation of imagery;Conclusion:a part of Chinese medicine theory has been verified; Five Element Music and ICP mutually complement each other and can promote the effect of psychological counseling. |
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