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

oral en sentido al desarrollo de su Ego
A D D I C T S A N D M U S I C T H E R A P Y - A C A S E
S T U D Y / E L A D I C T O E N M U S I C O T E R A P I A -
P R E S E N T A C I Ó N D E U N C A S O
OFELIA HERRENDORF DE WAEN & DANIEL ALBERTO
GARAY
It should be borne in mind that drug addiction can occur
in cases of neurosis or psychosis.
The possibilities for the care of an addict patient using
music therapy can be clarified by looking at the case of
a young girl treated in the Institution's Day Centre.
Having studied her personal and family background, we
were able to work (with the analysis of evaluated
sessions and the Sound History of this patient) in
nuclear (family) sessions, programmed within a project
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which was accepted by an Interdisciplinary Team which
backed our work.
This was how we managed to work in three areas:
a) individual
b) microsocial (family) and
c) macrosocial, understanding that we used two
main ideas as a guide: discrimination and
individualisation.
We were able to observe the following:
1) Form of interaction and communication.
2) Inability to recognise parents and family.
3) Family environment in which the young girl had
been brought up.
4) Difficulty on the part of the parents to accept her
using her "christian name".
5) Difficulties with her voice (tone, lack of volume,