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

M U S I C T H E R A P Y I N A C O N T E X T O F P O L Y -
E X P R E S S I O N / M U S I C O T E R A P I A E N U N
C O N T E X T O P O L I - E X P R E S I V O
LIANNA POLYCHRONIADOU- PRINOU
The goal is to improve quality of life and inter and
intrapersonal relationships.
Such objectives have made me:
1) exploit the wealth of resources of poly-expression
methods, among which music therapy occupies a place
of privilege.
2) realize how important it is that the therapist may
always be available, and that he may be adaptable to
the group's external demands and preferred means of
expression. (these are qualities which it will be
necessary to enumerate).
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Let us analyze what space would be granted to music
therapy in the other associated techniques and how it
could be used to profit within the groups. In other words,
how could sound be conjugated in conjunction with
other means of expression, for example:
- Music therapy and corporal expression
- Music therapy and drawing,
- Music therapy and plastic expression
- Music therapy and therapeutical work with masks
(both reference to their making and to their use),
- Music therapy and literary expression - Music
therapy and stage expression.
* The importance and complexity of affective life and
that of the environment, the role played by conflictive
situations in the genesis of disturbances impose the
search and use of all possible verbal and non verbal