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Schiltz-Ludwig, Lony: When Aggression is disturbed ...
communication, keeping the same availability and empathy, reacting to the
client’s problem by musical improvisation, by reassuring him or respectively
confronting him, before moving to verbalisation. In this process I am
attentive to the manifestations of the unconscious, to any transfer or
counter-transfer, but I leave it up to the client to discover the sense of his
behaviour, proposing an interpretation in exceptional cases only. Fragments
of the past always end by emerging and are elaborated upon by means of
imagination, artistic production and symbolisation. It is a process of
questing the meaning of one’s personal and family history. A large part of
the work consists in the narcissistic restoration, in the elaboration of a new
positioning in relation with the Ego ideal , in agreement with the personal
gifts and abilities, and in the understanding and integration of aggressive
drives.
A certain number of adolescents suffering from this type of personality
disorder have been treated by this method over a period lasting from six
months to two years. All have undergone a positive evolution. The changes
obtained have been evaluated statistically with the help of observational
frames, with projective tests and with rating scales referring to external
criteria.
1. Tests used
Control group
Summary of the experimental design
Pretest Posttest
AFS AFS
FAF FAF
MBI MBI
Reactions to ethnical music Reactions to ethnical music
Clinical group
Pretest Posttest
AFS AFS
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