Abstract:

Mankind has benefited from music throughout history. Music was used as a means to encourage people in wars, entertain them at weddings, ward off evil spirits, and make their voices heard by god or gods according to belief. Music has the most effective role for healing purposes in almost all civilizations throughout. It is Turks who have an accumulation of about 6000 years of musical healing tradition and use hospital music for therapeutic purposes. Authorities have been studied and applied different music tones to different diseases. Many civilizations such as China, India and Egypt discovered the healing power of music and used music for therapeutic purposes in diseases that they thought were spiritually originated. In this study, the history, development, methods, and role of music therapies in treatment of substance and behavior addiction were examined. In this context, the usability of music in the treatment of substance addicts as well as mental and nervous diseases was investigated in accordance with available written sources. At the point reached today in Turkish culture, the subject of music therapy has been discussed, and it has been examined whether academic studies are carried out according to Turkish Music makam information. As a result of the research; It has been concluded that, as music therapy methods develop with technology, the area of using and diversity of music in treatment has increased, music therapies have taken an active role in substance and behavioral addicts, and the Turkish Islamic civilization, which first initiated music therapies in hospitals, is insufficient at the point reached today. It has been suggested that the music to be used in music therapies should be from Turkish Music forms and academicians who have researched the place of makams in treatment should be utilized. Our study is a qualitative study and scanning model was used. Our universe; music, our sample; are music therapies.

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