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

The therapeutic actions to act over this pathological
traits could to be on the direction of:
-- Tray to destroy the psychogenic mechanisms
which makes the r an affectioante experience.
-- Tray to lower the level of anxiety.
-- Tray to supply a stable, tranquil, free, organiced
atmosphere, but over all, esthetic and affective
atmosphere, which can provide vital experiences.
-- Tray to make autistic child to discover the
surrounding world, experiencing it with maximum
vitality, with poetic vision.
-- Tray to educate these children by means of
affection and therefore, of art.
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WHY MUSIC THERAPY IS FUNDAMENTAL IN
AUTISM AND PSYCHOSIS
The problem is how to influence the the autistic child, a
human being who pathologicaly is enclosed in himself to
the point that even in some occasions he is insensible to
phisical pain.
The emotional life of this child is blocked. This means
that the frank and openly affectionate approach of
someone, the therapist for exemple, is rejected, at the
begining of treatment; it moves the child to isolate
himself even more, to flee, or to continue ofmaintaining
a distance, apparently insensible.
The child fears any new experience becouse he
conceives it as yet another means of suffering..
However,only maternal love type can open the closed
door of the child and penetrate to his interior; it is the
only possible lenity which can act efficiently.