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Music Therapy Found To Have Lasting Beneficial Effects on Mental Patients
New York - H-'ra - In three
studio rooms a block from
Carnegie Hall,, a group of
pioneera is proving that music
can be an effective medicine
Key to Genius Is
Visible in The
Pre-School Child
New York (Science Service)
The key to genius is visible in
the preschool child, but early
recognition it urgent if this
human resource is not to be
wasted, Dr. Annette Rosentiel,
sociologist at Mills College of
Education in New York,, re
ported here, i .
Only one per cent of the
nation's children may be clas
sified as genius, she reported
to the American Association
for the Advancement of Sci
ence meeting here. U. S.
Bureau of the Census statis
tics show that gifted children
from five to 18 total 632,951.
Under five there are approx
imately 200,000 gifted chil
dren. "It is to this small group
of one per cent that w must
look for the superman of the
atomic age, and it is, in the
preschool group that we must
concentrate to build for the
future," she said.
Deplores Emphasis
Dr. Rosentiel deplored the
present tendency among
adults to emphasize patterns
of socialization and interper
sonal relations rather than on
development of mental ability
in children.
"By the time a child goes
to school, his early curiosity
may have been blunted, his
eager probings for knowledge
thwarted, h i s questioning
sidetracked, and his desire
for learning dulled by what
to him may appear to be adult
disinterest and actual opposi
tion," she noted.
Disturbed children often
result from this adult rejec
tion of the probing and ques
tioning of a child. She said
that the gifted cihld who is
encouraged to develop hii po
tential is "somewhat healthier
and belter adjusted than the
average child."
Nursery School-,
Dr. Rosenstiel recommend
ed nursery school experience
as one way of providing an
environment by which the
child's general intelligence
may be enriched. A child,
however, should not be
judged merely, on his I. Q
which is based on cultural
memory and on past achieve.
merits, but on his anticipated
peak of development, what
Dr. Rosenstiel calls his P.I.Q
or potential intelligence quo.
tient.
P.I.Q. is based not only on
demonstrated acquisition and
achievement, by which I.Q. is
measured, but on qualities
such as curiosity, interest, de
termination, persistence ; and
learning, and striving after
higher goals.
Parents can do most to
Identify the gifted child, she
said, and urged a "do-it-yourself"
project for this identifi
cation, which has to be a joint
undertaking of parents and
the child. .
for the mentally ill.
Music therapy has been an
accepted tool in hospitals all
over the country since an or
ganized program was insti-
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Stephenville, Tex. lUPD-Mrs.
Danny Cobb is well on her
way to equipping her kitchen
with winnings from a Cham
ber of Commerce carnival.
In one week, Mrs. Cobb's
name was picked for an ice
chest and a radio on one
night; the next night she was
chosen to win an electric per
colator, and the following
night-was picked as the win
ner of an electric toaster.
tuted by the Musicians Emer
gency Fund in the 1930s. But
its particular usefulness as an
adjunct to psychiatric treat
ment dates back only three
years.
Credit for the creation of
the Music Rehabilitation Cen
ter on Manhattan's West 57th
st. is due Florence Tyson, one
of the fund's music therapists.
After observations of sitfging
and guitar courses in the men
tal ward of a large veterans'
hospital, Miss Tyson became
convinced that music had a
lasting beneficial effect on
mental patients.
Doctors Suipiciout 0
"But it was difficult to con
vince anyone else," she re
calls. "Doctors were very will
ing to accept music as a way
to fill their mental patients'
days but they were very sus
picious of music as therapy."
The attractive therapist en
listed the aid of Dr. Donald
M. Carmiehael, director of the
New York State Department
of Hygiene's aftercase clinics
and a musician himself. With
Carmiehael acting as chief ad
viser, the musicians emer
gency fund set up a mental
health division and opened its
first center.
"We started with a studio
in Carnegie Hall and one
piano," she said. "We do
group and individual work in
hospitals but our main
terest is in helping psychi
atric out - patients who have
been released from mental
hospitals but have wl been
able to find their vTSy back
into normal, everyday life.
The use of modern drugs has
made release of so many men
tal hospital patients possible
that his has become a big
problem."
Miss Tyson described the
first case hs.tled by the cen
ter as a "fiasco," but k6u-
in-Lfilly there developed a record
, V. . ,i
OI silL'lt'SSf.s, lume ui iiic-ni
quite dramatic. Voice train
ing and the mastery of instru
ments such as the guitar, vio
lin, piano, clarinet, saxophone,
and drums give patients a
sense of renewed importance,
confidence, poise and the abil
ity to accept criticisnCand ad
vice. "Best of all, we overcome
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the fear of making mistakes,
said Miss Tyson. "We make
reports on the paticnt'sQe
actions, attitudes and progress
tog'heir psychotherapists and
this is very helpful in com
plying their out-patient medi
car therapy as a valuable
aid."
Miss Tyson described
Charles, a pseudonym, as one
of the center's greatest "vic
tories." He Xas a manic de
pressive, moody, suspicious,
unrealistic, rejected by his
family because he failed to in
come a big money-maker a a
clarinetist although hs hwl
ral talent for the irwtrumont.
"His inability for normal
relations with his family, his
teachers, and society in gen
eral deteriorated and he
wound up In a hospital," she
related. "After his release, he
came Iojjs but he couldn't
tolerate VjJ.is own errors.
Against our advice, he re-enrolled
at a music college but
flunked out and began to en
tertain suicide thoughts."
Won Confidence
Charles tried to hold jobs
but failed. Miss Tyson and
her staff kept in touch with
him and gradually won his
confidence. They persuaded
him to give up the clarinet, a
frustrating symbol of, $rts fam
ily drive for financial sue
c., iwirt try the piano.. He
started with jazz which ap
pealed t his natural rythmic
sense.
"For the. first time he found
real pleasure in music and by
the fourth lesson was like a
new person. Now he ia giving
piano instruction to children
- who are uncritical and re
sponsive - undS)a New York
Board of Education program.
It pays very little, but it's a
start and feels that in
teaching he is at last finding
a place in life."
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