The author is a psychoanalyst who has been working for several years in Padua as a psychiatrist within the prison system and as a consultant to the Court. Psychoanalytic training in therapeutic relationships, both individual and group, with patients suffering from mental health issues and offenders, allows for a more empathetic and profound cognitive approach in an environment that has nothing therapeutic or rehabilitative about it. Patients often find themselves confined as a result of relational conflicts involving affections and emotions, experienced in a constrained or distorted way, in the absence of symbolic and elaborative thinking that gives meaning to their behaviour. The author offers some considerations on the importance that the creative and evocative power of music can have in recovering the ability to feel healthy emotions and the ability to think.