Lecourt, E (2002) Music Therapy Research At University René Descartes - Paris V Music Therapy Today (Online) avaiable at http://musictherapyworld.net
for research. That is to say: repetition of practices, multiplication of cases, and recording of satisfactions. And the practice of music therapy generally give a good amount of satisfactions. The problem appears as a scientific question with the necessity of a justification of the processes in a clinical point of view, either to build a model of understanding of what music therapy is, a relevant theory, or to precise in what cases it really works. At this point I must say, “satisfaction” - the client’s satisfaction or /and the music therapist’s satisfaction - is not a scientific criterion. Scientific researches have demonstrated that, on this level, about any sort of psychotherapy is of equivalent value, gives equivalent results. And, on a relational level, we know that “satisfaction” is currently based on illusion, seduction, fusional experience, if not on affective exploitation. Nowadays, ethical questions about sects procedures make us aware of the danger of some of them, even when adepts feel enthousiastic. Moreover, we all know the power of the placebo effect for many of our remedies, and music therapy is not protected from this effect. Consequently, the client’s satisfaction is only one argument to comfort music therapy practice and this satisfaction has to be analysed: which relational and technical processes is it the result? This is a central topic for the research in this field. The psychoanalysis has given the model of the transference process as a tool to understand some of these satisfactions (and unsatisfactions!). And I want to emphasize that music is not an insignificant mediation which could be replaced by any other. The aesthetical dimension of music in
Music Therapy Research At University René Descartes - Paris V - Which Sorts Of Satisfactions Are Given, Produced, Through Music Therapy ?
3