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

Health Center, some annual statistic reports and
periodical inquiries has given informations that music
therapy sessions are given one of the highest marks
and that about 90% of all patients want to have music
therapy more frequently. It has been also established
that the headache completely vanished or diminished
during listening to music in more than 50% of the
patients, who had light headache inmediately before
music therapy.
In Mental Health Center in Ljubljana the main findings in
ten years music therapy practise have confirmed the
expectations that carefully selected music can relax the
patients in crisis in such a way taht they can easily
recognize their feelings, accept them and verbalize
them. This is not important fact only for hospitalisation
time - because patients can take their positive attitude
to active listening to music along with themselves also
when they leave hospital.
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