Dissertation - World Federation of Music Therapy

Craftsmen are working
The foundation and the walls are solid on every floor
almost beautiful
there is a fine atmosphere Soon I will be
even when insides are empty an old well-restored storehouse
Three months later she wrote another poem:
Music Therapy
Time is deluted
Forgotten vistas
Made visible again
And my discount made horizon
Turns tailor-made
To suit a time
Of expansion
Many examples can be found in the BMGIM literature. Clark (1991) described the
dual metaphor of the shadow and the goddess, as polarities in a client's journey
towards “integration of the child, mother and father into the adult self.” Fragmented
parts of the ego have their specific metaphoric quality, as described by Pickett (1991),
whose client had severe addiction problems. The various parts of her personality were
known as ‘Judge, Nasty, Tender, Child, and Shame’, and they all had to be identified,
before the client could relate to them and gradually incorporate them in a more
integrated self. In general, clients with dissociative personality disorders or multiple
personalities reveal the personality parts and their conflicts as separate figures.
Erdonmez (1993) reported the uncovering of several sub-personalities; ‘Anita,
Faiblesse, Carmen, Higher Self, August’ in a musician struggling with performer
anxiety. – Self-metaphors of schizoid clients in group music and imagery therapy also
give precise information about their defence systems, and how the metaphors develop
over time (Moe 1998). One client imaged herself as a person who makes the grass
wither, when she walks. Later in the process she saw herself as a small bird being
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