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

contact, a tranference emotion, the attempt of insertion
in himself the client's pathology, in an unconscious way.
Once he has been informed by the patient's
pathological structure, the therapist will behave, choose
and find it right to provide to the therapeutic rela tionship
according to the needs of the client pathology. This
pathology becomes the inspirer of the therapeutic
action. This is the paradox that happens more often
than one could imagine.
The contact with the psychic pathology is an information
contact that structu res the inner reference patterns of
the persons involved in the relationship. We cannot,
therefore, be superficial in the use of musictherapeutic
technics.
If the pathological contact happens the effects will not
be useful for the client's soundness but simply reinforce
his psychopathology with useless intervention
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consequencies or ruinous for both members of the
relationship. The first important effect can be observed
on the patient that will be rein forced in his disease, go
on depending from the cure and will pretend for his
whole life to be served by the society.
The effect on the therapist will be also negative. After
having absorbed the pathogenous information he will
find himself ill: tiredness, psychosomatic diseases,
ideological hardening, obsessions, phobia, delirium,
fears, uncertainty, loss of vision of reality.
If we want to build true musictherapists, we must
premise, to whatever ideological current, the bases
examinated till now. A good musictherapist must know
the psychoanalitical technic and dynamic, but must also
know the scientific results that come out from authors
like C. Rogers, L. Binswanger, C. Jaspers and the
existential psychology in general, and must know