Dissertation - World Federation of Music Therapy

them, many stairs and things like that. Difficult to get in, difficult to get out – a lot of
strange rooms.. [You know that they are there, and that it is possible to get in?] Yes.
[To me it seems like a good experience for you every time you capture a new room?]
Yes, it is something about new sides… Finding a new place, penetrate a tangle, and
get through to the other side. [Do you feel, less metaphorical, that you have captured
new space?] It is like acknowledging new aspects of myself all the time, knowing
them better, with greater security of being in the rooms.
[What about the body as a room – has anything happened to that?] My body feeling
almost disappeared when I was sick. In the period before I was sick I engaged in
sports and felt good about my body. But then it was complete molested, from the
outside and from the inside – it was almost as if my body was public property. But it
has become better. Another thing is that I had cancer in a part of my body that is not
so easy to talk about. [Has it become easier for you to talk about it?] Well, people tell
me that ‘It is easy to talk with you about it.” It has been helpful that my body feeling
has improved. The progress is fine.
[You have a certain reservation when you answer the question about how much “The
music therapy helps me to get on”?] That is Jutish understatement! I mean, in what
way has it helped me? I haven’t used it consciously or in a specific way. That’s my
way of expressing it – very Jutish.
[Imagery – music – therapist, a triangle: Did you experience that they were a unity, or
was one element more important than others?] They are a unity. It is not the same just
to listen to music. If you want to work with your experience you need someone to ask
the good questions. Then it becomes meaningful.
[What do you think about music therapy/BMGIM as compared to other options for
cancer patients?] In the first place there are not many options. Is there anything
besides Kræftens Bekæmpelse? I think it is a great option. There is a sad lack of
music and other healing influences in the hospital, and I think it is a disaster for the
health system... I could have used it as ”medicine”
[So you would have liked BMGIM in the hospital?] Certainly! [But does a cancer
patient in hospital have the energy required?] It is hard work to be a patient. The
nurses do a good job, but anyway… The first time I had chemotherapy I felt bad for a
long time, so maybe I could not have managed the music at that point of time. But I
needed some sort of support in order to bear the idea of going through the next round
a few weeks later. I think I could have used it between the [chemotherapy] sessions.
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