Abstract:

Music is an important tool allowing people to convey their feelings, thoughts, basic beliefs, expectations, and inner conversations. Lyrics reflect the feelings and thoughts of the person who creates and performs the work; everyone can find a piece of themselves in these lyrics. This study aimed to analyze the songs performed by Bergen, an important arabesque/fantasy music artist, in terms of some basic concepts of schema therapy. Accordingly, eight arabesque songs in the album "Tribute Album: Bergen", which was created in memory of Bergen on March 8, 2022, and performed by many artists, were examined in terms of early maladaptive schemas and maladaptive coping modes. Document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The findings showed that the analyzed lyrics contained expressions reflecting emotional deprivation, abandonment, pessimism, self-sacrifice, punitiveness, suppression of emotions and insecurity schemas. In addition, three different coping modes, namely avoidant/protective, submissive, and self-pity, were found in the lyrics. As for the frequency of early maladaptive schemas, expressions representing pessimism, emotional deprivation, punitiveness and insecurity schemas were identified as the most common schema themes. The findings were discussed within the framework of the literature and several suggestions were provided for researchers and mental health professionals.

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