Strutture narrative e percorsi formativi

This paper concerns narrativity and psychotherapeutic tools. In addition to be the patient's clinical history, narrativity concerns the history and the evolution of the relationship between patient and therapist. Memories merge into real experiences where the "here and now" of the session has a privileged role. In music therapy this aspect has even more importance due to the nonverbal nature of musical language where the "here and now" experience is more vivid and linked with body arousal. Musical conversations as well as musical improvisations are patterns where therapists and patients buid step by step their own story and narration. Emotional expressions and emotional regolative processes are deeply impled in all therapeutic stages and in the transformation of emotions from body answers into cognitive processes, i.e. thoughts. Narrative elements can be part of the training in music therapy: music therapy trainees should be aware of new elements as well as repetitive patterns in musical language. The "theme and variations" patterns can be used in a therapeutic way to build an emotional bond between patient's experiences and therapist's possibilities to hold them.