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

WINNICOTT, D.W. O Brincar e a Realidade, Imago
Editora Ltda. Rio de Janeiro, 1975.
M U S I C T H E R A P Y I N T H E D E P A R T M E N T F O R
C R I S I S I N T E R V E N T I O N I N M E N T A L H E A L T H
C E N T E R I N L J U B L J A N A
VIDA CELAREC
There is no formaly adopted definition of music therapy
in Slovenia yet (there is also no Assotiation of music
therapy in Slovenia yet) but there is an informal
definition used in Mental Health Center in Ljubljana:
music therapy is defined as the use of a scientific
application of music to accomplish therapeutic aims
because it can be a diagnostic and therapeutic tool in
psychotherapy program of psychiatric patients.
Music therapy has been included in the psychotherapy
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program on the Department for Crisis Intervention since
1983.
It is used in passive, receptive group form once a week.
It lasts 75 minutes. The group of patients is open, mixed
and has 12 members on average. The constant parts of
every session are the following:
a short introduction of the music therapist (about the
way of active listening to music) is not always needed
because the informacion about music therapy quickly
spreads among patients
listening to music twice (10 minutes)
verbalisation of feelings and psychotherapeutic
conversation (40-50 minutes) and summery (10-15
minutes).
The main principle of crisis intervention -where in
therapy we try to help a person in crisis to function al