Iversen wrote:Unfortunately that won't do in my case since my brain has connected singing to the brain center for extreme disgust and perversion. That being said, I have spent a couple of evenings reading a translation of Oliver Sack's Musicophilia, and he delivers a panegyric defense for singing and playing and listening to music as a tool in psychiatry. Something that can make catatonic patients dance and amnesiacs remember...
Have you gotten to the chapter in Musicophilia that deals with people who have a very intense and emotional disdain for music? I could have sworn there was a chapter about it in that book but it's been a year or two since I read it.
Searching google/google books didn't give me what I wanted but it does turn out there's a newish diagnosis called musical anhedonia which Sacks very briefly touched upon in Musicophilia. That said, I really liked that book and need to reread it sometime soon.