Music Therapy in Cancer Aftercare:

Journal/Book: Musiktherapeutische Umschau. 1981; 2: Stuttgart. G. Fischer Verlag. 127-133.

Abstract: A six weeks group-course of music therapy with cancer patients, preponderantly breast-amputated women, is described. The cancer patient fells himself as an outsider and a scapegoat, he has to master imminent death, his - partly suggested by others - guiltyness and the helplessness of his surroundings. He gives the impression of an emotionally totally benumbed person, who lost his balance. Three problems were treated within in the course: 1. the reduction of body-hostility and the acceptance of his/her own body, 2. the permitting of unpleasant and destroying forces, 3. the influence of his/her own balance with the aid of the personal attitude. The central point of each lesson was the therapeutic conversation for giving new ideas and impulses, because at that moment long-term therapy was not possible.

Keyword(s): Body-hostility, body-acceptance, therapeutic-conversation.

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