Il processo di improvvisazione creativa in musica e in psicoterapia: una scoping review

The ability to improvise is one of the elements that characterize human action. However, improvisation has always been subjected to a lack of interpretation: it is considered an activity without rules and references, and assimilated to an action that does not require skills, therefore completely une...

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Main Author: Lucia Luciana Mosca
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Language:English
Published: Verduci Editore 2021-03-01
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Online Access:https://phenomenajournal.marpedizioni.it/index.php/phenomena/article/view/114/93
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description The ability to improvise is one of the elements that characterize human action. However, improvisation has always been subjected to a lack of interpretation: it is considered an activity without rules and references, and assimilated to an action that does not require skills, therefore completely unexpected and "surprising". It is therefore clear that in this way it is contrasted with all those activities based on the rigorous analysis of data and scientific methodologies that would seem to be the only ones to guarantee "authority". But improvisational practice is certainly something much more defined and profound than the simple description used in the common mental representation. Improvisation research can inform basic cognitive neuroscience because it provides an original look at how experience gained can shape the structure and functions of the brain. The elective field of this research field is represented in the musical one. The question of the ways in which musicians improvise and the knowledge of the brain regions that are activated during musical improvisations seems to be relevant not only for the discipline that studies the "psychology of music" in the strict sense, but it can shed light on mental processes involved in psychotherapeutic practice. Within it, in fact, it is possible to recognize the action of that mechanism of reorganization and adaptation of the knowledge, acquired by the professional, to the experience that is occurring in the here and now of the therapeutic situation, a mechanism that we have seen to be at the base of any improvisational action.
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spelling doaj-art-1cc94d7171e4414786fe9350a0d60af42025-08-20T02:56:36ZengVerduci EditorePhenomena Journal2612-67962021-03-01311026https://doi.org/10.32069/pj.2021.1.114114Il processo di improvvisazione creativa in musica e in psicoterapia: una scoping reviewLucia Luciana Mosca0SiPGI - Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia Gestaltica IntegrataThe ability to improvise is one of the elements that characterize human action. However, improvisation has always been subjected to a lack of interpretation: it is considered an activity without rules and references, and assimilated to an action that does not require skills, therefore completely unexpected and "surprising". It is therefore clear that in this way it is contrasted with all those activities based on the rigorous analysis of data and scientific methodologies that would seem to be the only ones to guarantee "authority". But improvisational practice is certainly something much more defined and profound than the simple description used in the common mental representation. Improvisation research can inform basic cognitive neuroscience because it provides an original look at how experience gained can shape the structure and functions of the brain. The elective field of this research field is represented in the musical one. The question of the ways in which musicians improvise and the knowledge of the brain regions that are activated during musical improvisations seems to be relevant not only for the discipline that studies the "psychology of music" in the strict sense, but it can shed light on mental processes involved in psychotherapeutic practice. Within it, in fact, it is possible to recognize the action of that mechanism of reorganization and adaptation of the knowledge, acquired by the professional, to the experience that is occurring in the here and now of the therapeutic situation, a mechanism that we have seen to be at the base of any improvisational action.https://phenomenajournal.marpedizioni.it/index.php/phenomena/article/view/114/93improvisationpsicoterapiacreativitàdivergent thinkingneural mechanism
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Il processo di improvvisazione creativa in musica e in psicoterapia: una scoping review
Phenomena Journal
improvisation
psicoterapia
creatività
divergent thinking
neural mechanism
title Il processo di improvvisazione creativa in musica e in psicoterapia: una scoping review
title_full Il processo di improvvisazione creativa in musica e in psicoterapia: una scoping review
title_fullStr Il processo di improvvisazione creativa in musica e in psicoterapia: una scoping review
title_full_unstemmed Il processo di improvvisazione creativa in musica e in psicoterapia: una scoping review
title_short Il processo di improvvisazione creativa in musica e in psicoterapia: una scoping review
title_sort il processo di improvvisazione creativa in musica e in psicoterapia una scoping review
topic improvisation
psicoterapia
creatività
divergent thinking
neural mechanism
url https://phenomenajournal.marpedizioni.it/index.php/phenomena/article/view/114/93
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