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Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most intangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today 1s a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this challenging book, he explores why this should be so. Music is a succession of tones through time. How can a sequence of sounds both express emotion and evoke it in the listener? Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues that the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. Dr Storr was a practising psychiatrist for nearly forty years and is a distinguished thinker about the sources of creativity. He is deeply concerned with the psychology of the creative process, and with the healing power of the arts. Here he explains how, 1n a culture which requires us in our daily working lives to separate rational thought from feelings, music reunites mind and body, restoring our sense of personal wholeness. It is because music possesses this capacity that many people, including the author, find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence. Dr Storr’s investigation of music is also an exploration of the human psyche. That is why this book, like all his work, deepens our understanding of ourselves and the lives we lead. £16.99 net Music and the Mind By the same author THE INTEGRITY OF THE PERSONALITY HUMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS THE DYNAMICS OF CREATION JUNG THE ART OF PSYCHOTHERAPY THE ESSENTIAL J UNG (editor) SOLITUDE FREUD CHURCHILL’S BLACK DOG ANTHONY STORR SS. MUSIC AND THE MIND ‘Music’s the medicine of the mind’ JOHN LOGAN (1744-88) di hoes HarperCollinsPublishers HarperCollinsPublishers, 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8]B Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 1992 246897531 Copyright © Anthony Storr 1992 Anthony Storr asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN O 00 215398 X Photoset in Linotron Bembo at The Spartan Press Ltd, Lymington, Hampshire Printed in Great Britain by HarperCollinsManufacturing Glasgow The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reproduce extracts from: Hitler: The Fiihrer and the People, by J. P. Stern, (1975), Fontana Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Limited; Schoenberg, by Charles Rosen, (1975), Fontana Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Limited; The Origins of Concsiousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes. Copyright © 1976 by Julian Jaynes, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co. and Penguin Books Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. FOR SOPHIA, POLLY, AND EMMA WHO SHARE MY LOVE OF MUSIC