Music Therapy: The dialogue of the impossible to find the possible

Author:
Patxi del Campo

Abstract:
The music therapist works in this space of possible events and possibilities, walking through processes that are being built over and over again, where nothing has a fixed place; the patient and the music therapist travel along the routes the process takes.
Seeing improvisation as a creative field where a multidimensional network of forces and energies is traced, where the patient builds – destroys, moves among his own contradictions, makes it possible to convert improvisation not only into a product, but also into a process where sound envelopment is being recreated and multiplies itself into new realities in constant change.
Each improvisation creates another history on our own history. As Miguel de Unamuno said, “The future gives new meaning to the past”.
Each improvisation or creation turns into a new possibility. We must fence in each of them, establish limits so that links and bridges are set up between them, thus multiplying the possibilities of new realities.
This is how we will turn the therapeutic space into the space where different stretches of the patients’ life are represented, where the space of contradiction is transformed into the field of possibilities having recourse to silence as the point of departure for dialogue.

Biographical details:
Patxi del Campo
Musicoterapeuta

Experiencia Clínica