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

their mental tempo was. That is to say that mental
tempo became slower in accordance with the recovery
from illness.
In another research, in which mental tempo of both
discharged and reentered patients was investigated,
the patients with slower mental tempo were able to live
outside the hospital successfully, whereas many of the
patients with faster mental tempo reentered the hospital
by exacerbation.
From all this data, mental tempo was thought to be an
index of mental strain, and a decreased tempo was
considered to be related to the stability of emotional life.
This means that mental tempo is one of the important
tools to be to be used in the future for music therapy
evaluation.
At the presentation, the past researches will be
discussed, and by measuring mental tempo of the
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audience, the character and genesis of mental tempo
are to be discussed.
El tempo natural y congenial de cada individuo se llama
"tempo mental" y normalmente se mide golpeando
ligeramente sobre una mesa durante 10 segundos con
el dedo índice de la mano derecha (izquierda en caso
de ser zurdo).
Desde que E. Kraepelin y E. Kretchmer estudiaron el
tempo mental, muchos investigadores siguieron su
ejemplo y destacaron que el tempo mental estaba
estrechamente relacionado con el temperamento y
carácter de cada uno.
Este autor estudió, en el curso de las sesiones clínicas,
el tempo mental de esquizofrénicos crónicos (137
varones y 93 mujeres) descubriendo que cuanto más
grave fuera su enfermedad, mayor era su tempo