CASE-STUDY IN RESEARCH IN MUSIC PSYCHOTHE RAPY - A QUALITATIVE APPROACH

A qualitative approach for describing music psychotherapy treatment is developed. For this purpose we employ the methodological principle of triangulation of perspectives (patient, therapist, independent observ ers, composers). Our approach is based on the concept of the resonator function describing the perceptive capacity of all participants for e ffective and relationship-referred significance of the work produced d uring the treatment. The qualitative methode importing and extending t he knowledge of the inner context of the case is illustrated by two mu sical improvisations from the treatment of a female patient suffering from chronic migraine.