New perspectives in musical improvisation with psychotic patients: Mechanisms and Treatment

Patients with psychosis, from their pathology onward, do not dispose of a psychic space to reach symbolisation, which means, in music-therapeutic terms, that they are not able to create a musical form in which they could exist as a subject. Therefore, the musical and therapeutical transition from sensorial play (not playing) to musical form (improvising) is a basic condition for the treatment of the psychotic whatever. The specific musical and music therapeutic interventions in clinical improvisation are examined.status: accepte