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Prof. Moreno, Indian Doctor and her approach on Music therapy

I like Professor Moreno's approach as he tends to invent music out of the participants. But one of the major problems is its failure to standardize the music for different ailments. Dr. T.Mythilly of Apollo hospital standardized music for different ailments. Her website is : http://www.emusictherapy.com/ One is active mode of music therapy. The other one is passive mode of music therapy. I quote from her web: Definition Music therapy is a new form of approach to help children and adults, who have problematic behaviors, to make effective adjustments toward social , emotional, mental and educational aspects, where brain plays a dominant role.Many of the imbalances in the so called normals may also be made set right by regular exposure to certain raagas with special empahasis on certain notes. Music Therapy acts on the human beings before being transformed into thought and feelings. Music Therapy is of two modes of presentation. One is passive mode or passive form of music therapy wh