Over the past three decades, the theory and practice of couple therapy has moved towards integrative approaches. Typically, two or more couple therapy theories and their associated practices are blended into a more comprehensive, flexible approach to conceptualizing and intervening with couples’ problems. Emerging findings from social and affective neuroscience are also increasingly incorporated. This article argues for broadening integrative efforts to include the perspectives and products of the arts and humanities into couple therapy, with a focus on music. The article presents the rationale for this broadened scope of integration by discussing E. O. Wilson’s consilience theory and its bearing on the distinctions and convergence among the science, craft, and art of therapy. The research on the neuroscience of music and the role of music in affective experience, expression, and intimate relationships strongly supports use of music in transformative work with couples. Music theory and arts provide a useful framework for creating novel theories about couple relationships, for observing and understanding distressed couples’ problematic patterns, and for formulating interventions. Sensitivity to the musical aspects of therapists’ communicative behavior can increase the impact of interventions. The article provides a practical framework for utilizing music in couple therapy, and includes several illustrative case examples.

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将音乐融入夫妻治疗理论与实践

在过去的三十年里，夫妻治疗的理论和实践已经转向综合方法。通常，将两种或多种夫妻治疗理论及其相关实践融合成一种更全面、更灵活的方法来概念化和干预夫妻问题。来自社会和情感神经科学的新发现也越来越多地被纳入。本文主张扩大综合努力，将艺术和人文学科的观点和产品纳入夫妻治疗，重点是音乐。本文通过讨论 EO Wilson 的一致性理论及其对科学、工艺和治疗艺术之间的区别和趋同的影响，提出了这种扩大整合范围的基本原理。对音乐的神经科学以及音乐在情感体验、表达和亲密关系中的作用的研究强烈支持在夫妻变革性工作中使用音乐。音乐理论和艺术为创造关于夫妻关系的新理论、观察和理解陷入困境的夫妻的问题模式以及制定干预措施提供了一个有用的框架。对治疗师交流行为的音乐方面的敏感性可以增加干预的影响。本文提供了在夫妻治疗中利用音乐的实用框架，并包括几个说明性案例。音乐理论和艺术为创造关于夫妻关系的新理论、观察和理解陷入困境的夫妻的问题模式以及制定干预措施提供了一个有用的框架。对治疗师交流行为的音乐方面的敏感性可以增加干预的影响。本文提供了在夫妻治疗中利用音乐的实用框架，并包括几个说明性案例。音乐理论和艺术为创造关于夫妻关系的新理论、观察和理解陷入困境的夫妻的问题模式以及制定干预措施提供了一个有用的框架。对治疗师交流行为的音乐方面的敏感性可以增加干预的影响。本文提供了在夫妻治疗中利用音乐的实用框架，并包括几个说明性案例。