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

decide about his own life, since his subjectivity is
managed by a psychic master inside his cerebral ducts.
The negative psychology is a peculiar discovery of the
Ontopsycholo gical school. It is the mental, destructive,
tanatic aspect of the monitor of deflection inside the
human mind. It is a not-human mechanism induced by
the family and absorbed by the neuro-physiologic
schemes of the subject which find himself in a selfcontraddiction;
the monitor of deflection cause the ego
and organismic scission and induces the loss of the
subjective capability of reality so that the subject is
compelled to live only for the outside, the duty, the
coercion slnce he has lost the reference with his inner
self . It is an aspect of the monitor of the conscience that
doesn't refer reality but deviates the reflection on tanatic
aspects of existential loss.
The musictherapist must know and overcome these
problems. These psychic struc tures are highly active
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and strong. The ill patient may externally be defined
psychically weak, but inside of him he is strongly
structured in a fixed and obstinate way that makes him
be the negative leader of the whole environment. Every
ill person has a reference environment where he/she is
the absolute despot, unfortunately in a disparted way
from his original and functional leadership.
This means that pathology is a dynamic may impose
itself in a negative way , above all to who decides to
help.
In musictherapy the therapist open himself to the
client's needs: he must love him if he wants to help him.
During this outbreak the client automatically in sert his
pathology highly structured.
The ingenuous, unconscious therapist which is
therefore not professional, may experiment during the
relationship (musictherapy is often physical, there is a