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Schiltz-Ludwig, Lony: When Aggression is disturbed ...
surface symptoms, giving thus a support to the recent conception of the
borderline personality organization.
Some qualitative observations
The following stages of the therapeutic process could be seperated:
Stages of music therapeutic process
I Stage of exploration and release
II Stage of regression and fusional pleasure
III Stage of individuation
IV Stage of structuration and differentiated
pleasure
In stage 1 and 3, the release of aggressive drives was maximal. In stage 4,
there was noticed an striking progress in musical structuration and
integration of different musical parameters, and, at the same time, an
improvement in creativity and in the formal qualities of literary production.
To be efficient, instrumental and vocal improvisation needs the setting of
the therapeutic relationship, thus permitting a discharge of aggressiveness
that is not dangerous, offering a holding to anxiety, and allowing a fusional
regression in a first stage; functioning afterwards as a mirror to the efforts
of individuation and differentiation. Nevertheless, there seems to be also an
intrinsic effect of music on the bodily level, making the establishment of
the therapeutic relationship more easy.
Rhythm and melody were used to satisfy different emotional needs:
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