Music as Medicine : Combating PTSD With Music and Music Therapy

This White Paper will explore how music and music therapy is being employed to facilitate healing; in particular how veterans are finding relief from the symptoms of PTSD through music.

Posttraumatic stress disorder, more commonly known as PTSD, can change a person’s life for the worse, and is a serious condition that afflicts many people all over the world. Treatments range from psychotherapy to medication, however, music and music therapy is showing great promise in relieving the effects of PTSD. Numerous organisations, most notably groups that help war veterans and other military personnel, are discovering that music can be a powerful tool in relieving the effects of this crippling disorder.

Clinical studies can vouch for the health benefits of music therapy programmes and the beauty of music therapy is that it helps people in a physical, mental, emotional and social way.

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