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

and remote past. Their empathy is strong and deep - my
therapeutic role is usually only to be a moderator of
emerging interactions.
The summary of music therapy session includes the
main thread of all verbalized feelings in the group. This
second group conversation homogenisises the patients
again, creates emotional closeness and the feelings of
security are strenghted.
Just at the end of a session (this happens in 70% of all
music therapy sessions) they usually express a wish to
listen to the music for the third time.
In past eight years a “top ten” of the most “effective”
compasotions (which elicited similar emotional
experiences, caused deep empathy, many group
interactions and deep relaxation) were made on the
basis of a comparisson of patient`s experiiences after
listening to the same compositions. Similarity in
emotional experiences did not depend in inteligence,
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sex, age or length of hospitalisation. To those
compositions the patients listened with the highest level
of contentration and each member of a group could
verbalize his feeling.
I would like to enumerate some of these compositions
and quote the patients most frequently used words.
Debussy: Clair de lune. Relaxation, pleasure, calmness,
experience of beauty, love, associations with nature,
(the sky, water).
Bach: Aria. Calness, sadness is beautiful, harmony,
contact, relaxation, rest, consolation, trust in God.
Massenet: Meditation. Beauty, optimism, relaxation,
relaxed weeping, being wmbraced, happy childhood,
happiness from the Heaven, harmony.
Although there is no concrete evaluation of the
treatment effectiveness of music therapy in our Mental