Music Therapy Introduction Music therapy, as the name implies, is a discipline that uses music as the main treatment tool to help patients recover from illnesses and eventually overcome them – a newly developed cross-cutting discipline involving multiple fields. In recent decades, due to the fierce competition in society, the ever-changing environment and the increased psychological pressure, the number of illnesses caused by psychological and social factors has increased dramatically. Now, the majority of medical professionals have increasingly recognized that in the past, only using the “biomedical model” to consider and solve the prevention and treatment of diseases is very insufficient, but must use the “biological, psychological and social medical model” to consider the problem, solve the problem, should be regarded as The object of diagnosis and treatment should be regarded not only as a biological person with flesh, blood and body, but also as a social person with thoughts, feelings and complex psychology. Therefore, it is not enough to adopt the diagnosis and treatment method of simply “seeing and prescribing medicine” for patients. Especially for patients with psychosomatic diseases, if the psychological factors are not removed, medication alone cannot solve the problem fundamentally, so psychotherapy is gradually becoming an indispensable means of treatment in clinical medicine, and music therapy is an important aspect in the field of psychotherapy, which is increasingly recognized and valued by people. China is an ancient civilization with a long history. Both medicine and music were well developed in ancient times, and the use of music to treat illnesses has accumulated a lot of valuable experience (though not yet systematic), both in practice and in theory. As early as more than 2000 years ago, the book “The Book of Music” already pointed out that music has a good effect on regulating people’s harmonious life as well as improving their health, and different music, some of which act as hypnotic and others as euphoric. For example, Ouyang Xiu, a literary scholar of the Song Dynasty, used music to cure depression (by learning the qin), and Liu Yu’s “The Book of the Western Envoy” of the Yuan Dynasty recounted the story of a khalifa (Arabian head of state) who was cured of a chronic headache by enjoying pipa music. Other countries and nations that have used music to treat illnesses in foreign medical history include ancient Greece, Egypt, Rome, India, and Arabia. Pythagoras in ancient Greece pointed out the healing power of music 2500 years ago. Then, Aristotle also pointed out the function of music in restoring normalcy to patients who were emotionally disturbed. After the 18th century, some psychologists and medical doctors began to study the relationship between music and human health as a scientific topic. It was not until the 1940s that some European and American countries began to include music as an integral part of their treatment programs, i.e., as a specific medical treatment. For example, music was used in U.S. veterans’ hospitals to treat the physical and psychological trauma of World War II casualties; in England, music was used instead of anesthetics to successfully remove diseased teeth; and others used music to allay patients’ fears in surgical procedures and labor and delivery. By 1950, a national music therapy practice was first established in the United States, followed by the same organizations in Europe, South America, Japan, and elsewhere. In the same year, the International Music Therapy Association was founded, and plans were made to advance research, develop standard prices for training people, and so on. Since the first music therapy program was established in the United States in 1944, more than 70 universities have offered music therapy studies, and some have added master’s and doctoral programs in the discipline. Music therapy approaches have evolved into hundreds of approaches, forming numerous schools of music therapy including behaviorism, psychoanalysis, existentialism, Gestalt, and many others, and now, music therapy has become a mature discipline in its own right. Now, after more than 50 years of history, the music therapy business is taking root all over the world. It is expected that in the near future, more people will be aware of and adopt music therapy, and this emerging discipline will have a greater development and a brighter future. There is no doubt that music therapy has shown satisfactory results for many conditions through decades of practice. The treating physicians have achieved promising results by choosing different music and different methods to treat patients for different diseases, and have also accumulated very rich experience. According to many foreign sources, the treatment of primary hypertension, heart disease, neurasthenia, neurological headache, insomnia, gastrointestinal disorders and duodenal ulcers by the method of music appreciation is very effective; direct participation in singing and playing activities has its unique effect on mental and neurological diseases (such as depression, phobia, paranoia, mania, isolation, schizophrenia, etc.). The effect of music therapy Definition of Music Therapy: Music therapy is a systematic intervention process in which the therapist uses the various forms of musical experience, and the therapeutic relationships that develop during the course of therapy and serve as the driving force of treatment, to help the therapist achieve wellness.