Abstract:
The use of music in rehabilitation of people who use psychoactive substances emerges as an epistemological question to the field of Music Therapy. The lack of theoretical and practical researches in Music Therapy, which focuses on the complexity of the demand in rehabilitation of people affected by the abuse of substances, is the main motivator for the development of this work. Methodologically based on a bibliographical review, this dissertation is divided into three parts. The first investigates how the abuse of psychoactive substances rooted itself as one of the main problems of the current society and how the use of substances is culturally related to the arts, specifically music. This part has an approach of the Liberation Theology, which seeks the recognition of the dignity, common to all human beings, by looking into the suffering of the people. The second part identifies the ritual paths, in which the trans-signification of what is real happens. Issues related to language and ways the human being uses to leave reality, which mediate their existential quest, are the core of this part. The third and last part addresses the communicational and organizational nature of the music, in order to build an epistemological concept that considers the demand regarding to the clinical music therapy practice in rehabilitation of people affected by the abuse of substances. In this part, we identify that the Music Therapy session is a healthy practice of trans-signification of becoming human.
