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

able to became therapists - the ability to listen in
particular”.
The theorical matrix of British music therapists in
psychodynamic, tied in particular to psycholanalysis, as
Mary Kinstley does, above all.
Unlike Benezonian practice, the therapeutical rapport
mainly stresses the therapeutical project that passes
through change, whereas Beneson speaks of an
“experience” of interpersonal relationship in the first
place.
In her book “Music Therapy”, Edith Lecourt states that
“in France, music therapy is considered as a specialty
reserved to professionals of the health care world who
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work mainly in psychopathology and psychiatry and
who also have musical practice. The music therapeutist
is warmly advised to take part in psychotherapeutical
training”.
Two schools inspired by two diferent programme lines
exist in Belgium: one based on the line of Gestalt or
generally phenomenologial directions and the other
more psychosomatically oriented that used the the
techniques of musical improvisation above all. Both
converge in considering the music therapeutics as a
person who acts on human behaviour, with
restructuring at the cognitive leve.
In Italy, interest in music therepy has grown steadily
over the past 25 years and has led to the creation of
various regional courses and some training poles, the