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

Even if no examination can take place in disciplines
concerning Self experience training within a program,
certain common learning processes and steps of
progressions can be lined up especially from the
individual music therapy training work with students.
These learning processes and steps of progression can
of course be analyzed in different ways. I have
developed the following way of analyzing them on the
basis of a psychoanalytical approach:
1) Learning to see/experience intimate
relations/parents the way they are and the way you
intend them to be (distinguishing ideal from reality).
2. Learning to contain and accept pain, disappointment,
aggression, joy and other feelings related to intimate
relationships. - In these two learning processes
Consciousness of Proiections is trained.
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3. Learning to recognize yourself in "your own eyes"
instead of in the eyes of other people.
4. Learning to handle what you feel is right for you -
independent of parent censorship and your own
defiance reactions in a responsible way for yourself and
others.
- In these two learning processes Consciousness of
Introsections is trained.
5. Learning how to develop important tools for the
practical work when you contain feelings at the same
time as you allow feelings to appear.
- This last learning process train Self containment as a
music therapeutical tool.
This is only one way of analyzing steps of progression in
the training of the students' ability to interchange in a