Muzykoterapia a biocybernetyka

Abstract

The article presents selected issues of the role of music in an every-day life of contemporary people. The background of considerations constitutes a biocybernetic perspective of the issue in question. The work briefly discusses a psychological and subjective dimension of musicotherapy on the one hand, and, on the other, the attempts to indicate the methods of the objectivisation of the influence of music on man. The issue of artotheraphy, especially in its desired and positive understanding, being a general message of the work in question, is refereed to the analysis of potential possibilities of the objectivisation of the evaluation of the emotional condition of man. The receiver, under the influence of music, reaches personally changeable emotional states, usually defined on a psychological ground, but, what is also important, generates measurable signals conveying the information on he physiological condition. In an international terminology this very area of knowledge has been recently defined as “kansei engineering”.