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

such a performance of the music programme the group
cohesion is strengthened and the patients more readily
share their experiences.
2) The mixing different kinds of the music in
programme is accepted with the greater interest by the
patients. Those of them who accept the "serious" music
as difficult and incomprehensible, seldom have visual
images and think that they have a poor imagination, an
activation of their fantasy actlvity is observed. In our
opinion this is due to the great extend to their feeling of
being in equal position with the melomans in the group.
3) Proposing of selected themes for group freeassociation
is accepted willingly by the participants. This
gives the possibility for chaneling the thaughts, feelings
and images of the patients in the desired by the
therapist direction. The received associative material in
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this way is usefull from a diagnostic point of you.
4) In the music-therapeutic sessions exellent results
are obtained by using elements of psychodrama. Appart
from using nonverbal techniques, the psychodrama
playing of the initial problem can be mad which is
projected in the associations of the patients provoked
by the music listening or of a conflict emerged among
some patients in the course of session.
In asserting the music therapy as a therapeutic method
we face some difficulties.
Some of them are connected with the reserved attitudes
towards the method of many psychoterapists. Some of
them think that a music therapy has not an active
principle and can not be used for a change. The
psychotherapists who have convinced themselves in
the serious value of the music therapy face mainly