“Intuition or analysis” was a ten-page booklet which the author of this book wrote at the age of sixteen and in which he first developed the idea of “music as therapy” in the light of his own personal experience, in which music played a central role for salutogenesis and therapy.
Almost fifty years passed between that booklet and the interview on “Intuition” in this reader, during which time the author, editor and longtime professor of music therapy talked at conferences and symposia on almost all continents, gave interviews and occasionally published papers abroad, which are not all included here. All his thinking was influenced by his practical work in hospitals as a music therapist, expressive arts therapist and hypnotherapist that accompanied his research.
This reader shows the range of opportunities the author sees for the “phenomenologically oriented music therapy”, in which he himself grew up, which he helped to shape. It is a very diverse range, which provides previously unknown insights of the author into familiar topics, his clinical work (“What I love, makes me ill…” in full version) and his way of answering questions of the public media.