Flexibility in the music therapy setting

Abstract

The following article reflects on the aspects of a patient’s treatment with Polyneuropathy of the Critical Patient and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome who begins music therapy treatment in March 2019. The referral of the treating team appeals to the Neurologic Music Therapy model, since treatment is expected to deepen in its sensorial and motor rehabilitation. However, after assessment, it is shown that the approach needed is more linked to cognitive and mental aspects, and emerges in each session with the force of the urgent and primordial for the patient. The framing proposed in those first sessions begins to change, giving rise to co-creations that are establishing a place and time for listening, in a process that far from being linear and constant, is torn between the neurological, emotional and binding aspects. From this path, practical and theoretical questions are outlined in the search of the appropriate framing, the times that each objective requires in the patient’s treatment.