Indications and therapeutic effect of human-structural inpatient music therapy

Author(s): Fabian, E.

Journal/Book: Dynam Psych. 1998; 31: Kantstrasse 120/121, D-10625 Berlin, Germany. Pinel-Verlag Fur Humanistische Psych Philos. 109-118.

Abstract: The present paper describes music therapy as practiced in the Dynamic Psychiatric Hospital Menterschwaige in Munich. Following a short historical outline, the authors describe human-structural inpatient music therapy as a nonverbal therapy, characterized by specific features free improvisation, to render group-dynamic processes, ''audible'', to diminish anxiety and to differentiating it from other forms of psychotherapy. It is particularly apt, by making use of facilitate interpersonal contact and relationships in the here-and-now situation of the group: These features are of advantage in the therapy of symbiotic, anxious, autistic and paranoid patients. The therapeutic effect of human-structural music therapy can be deduced from the patients' own answers on questionnaires and from the therapists' interventions on several possible levels, taking into consideration the present unconscious group dynamics, as well as individual transfer and countertransfer phenomena, and using both metaphoric interpretations of the group atmosphere and music-theoretical interpretations, Thus, without using a specific technique for each diagnostic category, it allows therapeutic work with a wide range of pre-oedipally disturbed patients, when integrated in the global therapeutic milieu of the hospital.

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Keyword(s): PSYCHIATRY

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