At bruge musik til at håndtere modoverføring i individuel musikterapi i hospitalspsykiatrien

This article describes clinical and theoretical perspectives on the understanding and application of the phenomenon of counter transference in music therapy in adult psychiatry. The clinical perspectives are based on my ten years of practice in music therapy in hospital psychiatry especially on my work with borderline patients or patients with personality disturbances. The theoretical perspectives are excerpts from a historical literature review concerning the understanding of the phenomenon of counter transference from Freud to today. An analysis of a clinical improvisation from my own clinical work is included where the improvisation is analysed by five dimensions in one way of understanding counter transference worked out by a group of psychoanalysts called the 'specifists'. The analysis is based on my log notes, dialogue transcriptions of and notes from an observer.