Proceedings, Oxford, UK (2002) - World Federation of Music Therapy

thing you really can do, is perceiving the client’s expression of his/her
emotions or cognitive capacity in different forms of motor activity. What
is possible is a direct interaction between the areas of perception and
motor activity. And that is for both the therapist and the client. The other
areas are filtered through perceptive ability and the ability of motor
expression.
Neutral assessments that are usable for others and that in some degree are
objective therefore need to be stopped by detailed observations of the
motions and the motor functions and observations of reactions on
different types of stimuli. Interpretations on that ground may then be
done by others, but ought to be used only by themselves in benefit for a
good planning of treatment. On the other hand it is truly possible, as in
the FMT-method, to treat the observed digressions by aiming directly at
motor activity. By the special FMT-treatment you also will reach
dysfunction connected to emotional and cognitive functions through the
development of motor functions and perception.
EMOTIONAL APPROACH
The main concern on motor activity and perception doesn’t mean that
you as an FMT-therapist keep insensible for emotional expressions of all
kinds. On the contrary the FMT-therapist follows the client all the way in
his/her performing within the limit of the basic structure and gives direct
feed back on emotional expressions in form of tempo, dynamics,
smoothness and so on. That gives the client a strong feeling of security
and affinity.
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