A CASE FOR HEALING VETERANS WITH THERAPEUTIC HAND DRUMMING

A Case for Healing Veterans with Therapeutic Hand Drumming



A Case for Healing Veterans with Therapeutic Hand Drumming

Introduction

Dancing and playing the drums have served as common sign since the early ages of humanity. Communities utilised to trounce drums before searching and harvest feasts, during wedding ceremony and burial ceremonies, and when organising for and throughout battle. Drumming has been obtaining substantial attention in music therapy. However, only few references relate to drumming with people who suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD.

Combat stress reaction is a common syndrome among soldiers and can take the form of PTSD. This worrying condition includes symptoms such as feelings of loneliness and isolation from society. The intervening role of locus of control and social support, intrusive traumatic memories, and outbursts of anger. It may fail the individual's strength and power of control while leaving the individual with feelings of helplessness.

Discussion

The present study explored the use of music therapy with armed forces who bear from PTSD induced by battle or terror attack. It examined spontaneous playing the drums as a way to facilitate a sense of belonging, intimacy, togetherness, and connectedness; to achieve a non-intimidating access to traumatic recollections; to allow an outlet for storm; and to regain a sense of control.

Drums in war

Until the noisy and lethal weapons for fighting of the 20th century made them disappeared, drums were inseparable part of warfare. Drums have often been used before assault to motivate and boost the lesson and on the battlefield to threaten the foe and give pointers to troops as well (Reck, 1977). In the mid-18th years, the Turkish armed detachment of the Ottoman Empire marched to the noise of kettledrum, tenor drum and bass drums instrument among other instruments. This impressing drums sound was soon adopted by Veterans an armies (Hart, 1990)

By the time of the Renaissance, armies in Veterans had worked out musical languages to communicate information during battles. Warriors marched into the assault area to the trounce of edge drums. Changes in drum tempo indicated stride, approach, blaze, battle, skirmish, retreat or stop blaze ([Blades, 1970] and [Hart, 1990]), and each armed detachment had its exclusive set of rhythms (Blades, 1970). It was advised dishonorable to wound a drummer, whereas the arrest of an enemy's drums instrument was symbolically very significant (Hart, 1990).

Post-combat stress

In periods of the DSM-IV-TR (1994), psychological trauma is a answer to overwhelming individual risk in which the psychic apparatus submits to a position of terror and immediacy of death. PTSD is a complex array of symptoms which may appear in three forms, according to the onset and duration of the symptoms: acute, when the length of symptoms is less than three months; chronic, when the length of symptoms lasts three months or longer; and with delayed onset, when at smallest six months have lapsed between the traumatic happening and the onset of the symptoms. PTSD comprises three sets of symptoms: intrusion, avoidance, and ...