Of course all music therapeutic relationships are unique

In reference to E. Tronick’s statement on mother–infant relationships, the roundtable raises the question how to negotiate the necessity of using standardised (psychological and musical) assessment instruments on one side and implicit relational knowing on the other side. A psychodynamic concept of music therapy is based on the assumption that co-creation processes lead to a change of the way the patient makes sense of the world and of the ways she/he relates to significant others. This in mind uniqueness has always to be considered and intuition is constituent for practising music therapy, for the assessment and for the evaluation of the underlying processes. The papers will approach this from different perspectives for individual and group music therapy:Listening and Responding – Intuition in Music Therapy Sessions (N. Scheytt)Fragile Aesthetics – Relationship Diagnostics in Music Therapy on the Basis of Improvisation (A. Korber)Getting involved – Emotional self-perception, expression and interaction in

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