Matthew Bizer’s Reviews > I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine > Status Update
Matthew Bizer
is 40% done
“Loving music requires that we be receptive to it, that we make the mental space and time to allow ourselves to give into it, to be won over by it. If our defenses are up—as they can be in clinical, therapeutic environments—it may simply not work. Or it can catch us by surprise, evoking some of the deepest memories and deepest feelings of our lives, and in the process, help us through almost anything.”
— Sep 04, 2026 02:05PM
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Matthew Bizer
is 70% done
“Eve-Marie noted that ‘although music is initially a social-emotional product created by the composer, a listener does not have to enter into a direct interpersonal interaction with the composer in order to appreciate the music.’ She concludes that emotion processing deficits in ASD are domain-specific, and are preserved in music.”
— 1 hour, 18 min ago
Matthew Bizer
is 60% done
There’s a 4-page long digression on Joni Mitchell’s 2015 stroke and recovery and the importance of music therapy in her progress, and it was beautifully written, and I cried a little afterward
— Sep 13, 2026 03:44PM