What is it about?
Performance anxious musicians may not respond to symptom-based treatments like cognitive behavioural therapies or "positive" psychology interventions because these therapies do not address underlying core conflicts arising in early childhood. For this group of musicians, a depth psychology approach (e.g., psychodynamic psychotherapy) is required. Case studies using this approach are presented in this paper.
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Why is it important?
This work is important because it offers effective therapies for the most distressed musicians and adds to our theorizing about the etiology and treatment of music performance anxiety, and by extension, to other performance anxieties.
Perspectives
The work in this paper combines my experience as a musician, psychologist/clinician/therapist, researcher, and author that provides me with a unique perspective on music performance anxiety and the opportunity to synthesize knowledge in this field in a somewhat unique way.
Dianna Kenny
University of Sydney
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This page is a summary of: Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Attachment Trauma in Musicians with Severe Music Performance Anxiety, Behavioral Sciences, September 2025, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/bs15091270.
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