E-Book of Articles - World Federation of Music Therapy

D'ulisse, M. E..: For the Training Of Music Therapists According ...
In conclusion, the music therapist is a person able to perceive and
manage the non-verbal context, through the use of the corporal-sound-
musical instrument, with the aim of establishing a stable relationship with
the patient who, within this context, can find the possibility of recuperating
his healthy parts and changing his perception of himself.
Dr. Benenzon’s theory maintains that the patient will acquire several
theoretical concepts such as those of ISO, of setting, of GOS (Instrumental
Operational Group), of classification of the instruments according to their
use (intermediary, integral, incisive, etc.) and analysis of several models of
corporal-sound-musical communication (imitation, question-and-answer,
complex associations).
The training provides that after three years, every student, through
the use of simulations, can experiment with the work with a therapist pair
in conducting variable groups, in conducting a fixed group (the development
over time of a therapeutic process) and individual type work in which the
accent is on the relationship between the music therapist and the patient,
always within a rather large range of sessions and aimed at learning the
therapeutic process in its entirety.
The theoretical reference model is proposed in an experimental
manner to all teachers of the course.
Other references of a theoretical and epistemological nature can be
traced to various fundamental elements of Freudian psychoanalytic theory
(Freud’s first doubt) and to several elements of systematic-relational
thought (Bateson, Theory of Systems and Watzlawick, Pragmatics of Human
Communication).
For the entire duration of the training period, each student is
assigned a teacher from the school in the role of tutor, to accompany and
assist the student during the natural evolution of the personal experiences
that will emerge during the training.
During the third year of the course, the students, also on the basis of
the apprenticeship undergone, come under the indirect supervision of
accredited teachers as supervisors and learn little by little the most fitting
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