Abstract
The voice is an important, often underestimated factor in music psychotherapy, both in uncovering and in resource-oriented, body-oriented work. The article offers a survey of the influence of the voice in the therapeutic dialogue and points to opportunities for singing and sound-making in psychotherapy and music therapy. Various categories are then elaborated in greater depth, including the voice as a medium of verbal and non-verbal shaping of relationship, as a method in body-oriented music psychotherapy, as a diagnostic tool in the therapeutic dialogue, as an indicator for therapeutic transference and counter-transference, as a symptom, as a means of expression, as a means of self-healing and as a medium for trance induction. The bodily effects of singing are presented, with a focus on the specific potential of singing as the finest path.
