Dissertation - World Federation of Music Therapy

and I might as well accept it. Roger – over –
and out!
* (according to the session notes the pixy was
carried away by a prey swallow)
”Birds and flying things” (many sessions) When I had integrated the image of the eagle
a further development occurred. I had images
of flying, where the playful element of the
eagle became the focus. It would circle in the
air being held by the winds, it was an
exploration of an element new to me.
There have been many birds and flying
things, insects, winged objects of all sorts.
The air element is new to me. If you look at
my horoscope there is no air at all. I have
never been in love with people belonging to
an air sign; actually I always thought that this
was not for me (both laugh). It’s true! So all
The flowers (#6 and 10) – and the colour
pink (#4,6)
these bird images have been exiting.
First there was the pink lotus. I always hated
pink. Now I have established a contact with
that colour also. I’ve even bought pink
flowers to take home. Then there was the
final flower. I think that the flower itself was
not the most important. I am the heart of the
flower, the stamina, and the core. There was
a feeling of the flower unfolding. And it was
purple, or blue, like a tulip. And then it was
not a flower anymore – it became a grey-blue
rock, which I had the strength [to control].
The whole image is about strength.
The spruce cone (#6) I guess it is me, like in the old Thorbjørn
Egner song “Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s me,
maybe it’s… twedelidee”!
A little waddling man/gnome (#8) Then there was a little man with a cylinder
hat, a waddling little man. He may be a
relative of the pixy. I guess they are seen
from a mythological perspective, there is a
‘joker’ quality to them. But I liked him better
than I liked the pixy, he was welcome: he
was wise. He had all the classical attributes
of wisdom. A little shy, he doesn’t stand out
in the crowd. He stands there with his little
suitcase, in which he has a lot of good things
for me.
Churches (many sessions) Almost no sessions without a church…. I
think this has been characteristic of all
unpleasant things that I have faced in music
therapy – every time there was a door in the
other end. Or upwards, towards God – I have
been in churches many times.
God (#9) I had arguments with God, I have scorned
him, there were staircases up to him, in other
sessions it was obvious that he would come
down to me, I was no going up to him. I have
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