Health Psychology Research / HPR / Volume 3 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.4081/​hpr.2015.1545
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Understanding the missing link  between musical attitudes,  preferences and psychological  profiles: music as auto medication and self-adminis tered therapy? Implications  for music therapy

Nicola Luigi Bragazzi1 Giorgio Ratto2,3 Nicola Dalle Luche4 Tiziana Canfori5 Claudio Proietti5 Giovanni Del Puente6
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1 Department of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Genoa
2 Giacomo Puccini Conservatory of Music, La Spezia
3 Carlo Soliva School of Music, Casale Monferrato
4 La Scala Theatre, Milan
5 Niccolò Paganini Conservatory of Music, Genoa
6 Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, Section of Psychiatry, University of Genoa, Italy
Submitted: 31 March 2015 | Accepted: 31 March 2015 | Published: 30 November 2015
© 2015 by the Author(s). Licensee Health Psychology Research, USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Keywords
Music therapy; musical attitudes; preferences; psychological profiles; self-adminis tered therapy
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The authors declare no potential conflict of interest.
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