About being meant: Music therapy with an in-patient suffering from psychosis

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In psychotherapy with patients suffering from psychosis, the necessity of allowing acting and well-considered co-acting is acknowledged as a means of communication. The use of musical improvisations seems to be particularly appropriate for this, especially for the treatment of very extreme human experiences, such as, for example, feelings of vast emptiness, desertedness, persecution, fusion, dissociation, and unreachableness. These feelings are demanding in the therapeutic relationship, yet unavoidable to deal with. By means of a single case study the author analyses the challenges and the chances of musical interactions using psychoanalytical as well as musicological approaches.View full textDownload full textKeywordsanalytical music therapy, psychosis, musical interactionRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2010.489996