23.7. 1993 Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain - World Federation of Music Therapy

figures in music therapy, states that “the training of a
music therapeutist requires a certain length of time, that
is mandatory to acquire a know-how that needs to be
incorporated by the learner as a lived experience”. “Use
and knowledge of the non-verbal context are
mandatory. So, personal experiences have to be faced,
sach as to allow experimentation and recognition of
one’s own skills and the blocks to one’s non-verbal
experiences.
Benezon goes on to say that the therapeutical
relationship must be based on the possibility of
communicating “hic et nunc” in a non-verbal context:
this therefore presupposes the need “to develop the
capability of passing without difficulties the path of entry
into and exit from the progressive to the regressive and
viceversa”.
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For Benezon, “experience” therefore seems to be the
privileged field of research for the music therapeutist;
paralley developping musical and medicalpsychological
knowledge seems to be the background,
regardies of the would-be music therapeutist baseline
culture.
Training courses are prost-graduate in Great Britain;
though internally articulated between the psichological
and the musical, they appear to privilege the latter, so
that only students with a very high level of musical
education (such as a conservatory diploma for
instance) are admitted.
Leslie Bunt says “De facto, all course in Grat Britain
continue to be directed above all at training professional
musicians who also show personal traits such as to be