• ARTICLES, Special Section, The Joint Construction of Personal Meanings in the Arts

Music, meaning, and emotion: A case study.

Botella, L.

Keywords:
Music, emotional regulation, meaning making, personal construct psychology, constructivism

Abstract:
This paper discusses the emotional power of music in the specific sense of its potential use as a means to achieve (a) emotional regulation and (b) meaning making in constructivist psychotherapy. A case study of a client for whom music was a significant part of his life and his psychotherapeutic process is discussed so as to exemplify the paper’s main thesis.