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D'ulisse, M. E.. et al.: Application Of The Benenzon Music Therapy ...
emptiness, describing events in detail but not finding the words to express
the sentiments and resorting to uncoordinated nervous activity to resolve
conflicts and his relational life is generally poor. According to several
writers, the alexitimic (alexic) disposition contributes to the appearance of
certain somatic disturbances through the rupture of the psychosomatic
homeostasis, described as “separation of the subject from his unconscious”
or as a loss of all “phantasmal liberty” and the capacity to represent
affections (Marty 1963).
Keeping in mind what has been stated so far, music therapy can be
considered on various levels. First of all we will consider the ISO (from the
Greek: equal) as a sound and internal movement phenomena that affects
our sound archetypes; we will then consider the gestalt ISO as a dynamic
mosaic that characterizes the individual and is made up of the intrauterine
sound experience, that of birth and infancy, up to the present age; and
finally we will consider the complementary ISO which is the sum of the
small changes that occur each day, or in every music therapy session, under
the environmental effects and dynamic circumstances. According to
Benenzon (1997), in the therapeutic process, “The energies deriving from
the gestalt ISO are mixed in the unconscious with those of the
complementary ISO of the preconscious, thus becoming conscious and
opening up towards the outside”. In addition, “In the therapeutic situation,
the energies of the patient are liberated and when he or she undergoes
music therapy, the energies touch their complementary and gestalt ISO.
There is an emission from the energetic response that, on reaching the
conscious, re-elaborates the message as part of the discrimination between
the person’s recognized ISO and that of the patient. The direct objective of
the response, re-elaborated by music therapy, is to touch the
complementary and gestalt ISO of the patient, from which will clearly
emerge a reconstructive dialog of the internal dynamics.”
From the dynamic described, we note the mobilization of a flux of
energy that begins within the personality without the mediation of language
or thought, making the patient able to avoid the difficulties caused by an
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