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

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T H E T H E R A P E U T I C E X P E R I E N C E O F M U S I C I N
T H E L I G H T O F T H E H U M A N D E V E L O P M E N T
P S Y C H O L O G Y / L A E X P E R I E N C I A
T E R A P É U T I C A D E L A M Ú S I C A A L A L U Z D E L A
P S I C O L O G Í A D E L D E S A R R O L L O H U M A N O
KIMMO LEHTONEN
The purpose of this article is to set new light to the origin
of the human musical experience through the
development theory that combines the development
theories of Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud. The main
idea of the article is to show how an individual could
move within his different developmental phases and the
modalities of thinking related to them by using music.
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One could move from the logical thinking of everyday
life to the archaic thinking of the unconscious and vice
versa.
The basis of the article is the theory that musical and
psychic occurrence are isomorphous. According to that
theory music is a psychic process, and has its origins in
the states of tension within man appearing in sonantacoustic
form through the ear. This means that music is
an external; perceptible manifestation of that inner
process; a kind of process that individual uses to
transform his inner i.e. physical not lingual, experiences
of meaning into external audible form. The article
handles the forms of music as means of achieving
psychic harmony and music as a transitional and self
object.
When focusing upon psychoanalitically or
psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy, which is