“The Terrible Hand”
Music Therapy for Five Woman with Multiple Sclerosis

Author:

Lucia Luciana Mosca

Abstract:

Multiple sclerosis is a severe neurodegenerative disorder caused by a diffused demielinization of the nervous fibers. The etiological causes are still unknown, and numerous and varied hypotheses are been postulated; the clinical characteristics are much several one and they interest:
  -  locomotor system
  -  cognitive system
  -  psychological system
Therefore this is an illness highly destructuring, under all the points of view of the "operation" of a person.
This job introduces the music therapy treatment as one of the possible techniques of intervention inside the various picture of treatments individualized for this illness.
Music therapy, for its characteristics, are able to intervene in all the levels of defaillances of the patient with multiple sclerosis, using active techniques of sonorous production.
This work illustrates, particularly, the distance of two years treatment of five women, that has as primary object the treatment of the depressed state connected with the pathology, caused, probably, from the loss of the bodily identity of the patient .
The attention will be focused particularly mostly on two patients, (it will be shown video-example) of which will be shown the evolutions through the comparison with specific parameters of reference.
The methodology was mostly based on Benenzon ISO principles and Nordoff-Robbins Model, mediated by the specific di Franco’s methodology based on the importance and meaning of the use the voice in therapy.

Biographical details:
Lucia Luciana Mosca is Music Therapist, Pedagogist and musicist. She’s also attending the third year of the Faculty of Psychology in Naples.
From 2001 she work as music therapist in neurological center of rehabilitation “Serapide”, for children with various pathology; from 2003 she works also for AISM (Italian Association of Multiple Sclerosis).
She conducts many music therapy scholastic projects, for the prevention of the children scholastic dispersion.
She organizing music therapy workshops for the updating of the teachers of every degree of school.
She holds seminars on the subject “Music Therapy and Multiple Sclerosis” in Music Therapy school of the ISFOM in Naples.
She is a member of AIREM (Italian Association of Register of Music Therapist)