Stephani, Andre2012-01-242012-01-242012-01-24https://hdl.handle.net/11299/119973University of Minnesota master's thesis. Fall 2011. Degree: Master of Liberal Studies. Advisor: DonnaMae Gustafson. 1 computer file (PDF)A component of the Schillinger System for Musical Composition called the Psychological Dial has been used as a tool to compose music to elicit emotional responses from film audiences to support or disambiguate movie scenes for over fifty years. This same dial can be used as a tool to compose music, which when combined with entrainment technologies born of shamanistic healing practices for millennia, can elicit desired emotional responses from patients in certain medical settings. Such a setting could be to relax a pre-surgery or post-surgery patient which current medical science tells us will allow their immune system to better function in the healing process.en-USmusic therapyentrainmentSchillingerfilm musicShamanismmind-bodyalternative medicineThesis or Dissertation