Music in Therapy
The Song He Kept Playing
When Leon’s relationships keep ending, he finds himself returning to the same song, the same memories and the same young woman he never fully stopped loving. The Song He Kept Playing explores grief, idealisation, unfinished separation and what can happen when death preserves a relationship in a form that no living person can compete with.
Read MoreSongs in Therapy: Youth
A man arrives fifteen minutes early for every counselling session. Sitting alone in his car, he listens to the same song without fail. The ritual leaves him devastated, yet he returns to it week after week, convinced that the music contains something he desperately needs to understand.
In this second article in the *Songs in Therapy* series, a fictional story explores the powerful relationship between music, memory and emotional suffering. Drawing on psychodynamic ideas including Freud’s concept of repetition compulsion, Winnicott’s understanding of emotional holding and Jung’s theory of symbolism, the article examines why we sometimes return to the same painful places and what can happen when we begin to understand the deeper meaning behind them.
A reflective exploration of longing, identity, loss and self-understanding through the lens of one unforgettable song.
Read MoreSongs in Therapy: Hurt
A fictional psychodynamic exploration inspired by the emotional world of Hurt. Through the character of Elias, this first piece in the Songs in Therapy series explores shame, loss, self-destruction, and the painful search to still feel emotionally alive.
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