Music therapy for schizophrenics. TITLE, ORIGINAL: Musicothérapie pour malades schizophréniques.

Journal/Book: Revue de musicothérapie, France.. 1992; XII: 10-20.

Abstract: P.P. Lacas distinguished three processes in the sonic perception of children described as normal: (1) the mother-voice, when the baby does not make the distinction between the self and the not-self and perceives all sound as self-generated; (2) the voice of the mother, when the baby makes the distinction between the self and the not-self and derives pleasure and displeasure by yielding only to the mother and to the mother's breast; (3) the cultural discourse, the knowledge of the significance of language. The experiences of group music therapy for schizophrenics gives a three-part role to the illness: (1) action or individual musical-sonic expression; (2) relation or interactive game-playing; (3) communication or exchanges and commentaries after the musical practice. This trinomial coincides with the three stages of processes of sonic perception in children and assists the evolution from stage two to stage three which is problematic for schizophrenics. (author)

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