Health music(k)ing - Music therapy or Music and health? A model, empirical examples and personal reflections

The field of music therapy is expanding rapidly into new areas, practices and
interdisciplinary fields, as well as redefining its goals and values. Increasingly
"music and health" is used to describe the field when it comes to naming new
training programs, new interdisciplinary fields of theory and research and new
research centers.
The main purpose of this article is to contribute to the ongoing discussion of
empirical and theoretical potentials and problems in the interdisciplinary field of
music and health, both in clinical and in everyday life contexts. A theoretical
quadrant model, inspired by Ken Wilber and Gary Ansdell, is presented and
illustrated by empirical examples and references from the literature. Metatheoretical
reflections include the relevance of interpersonal or relational
psychology and vitality dynamics for the theory and practice of health musicing.