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ADIMU

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ADIMU (Ambito de Asistencia, Docencia e Investigación en Musicoterapia, Ambito de Docência e Investigaçâo em Musicoterapia, Center for Treatment, Training and Research in Music Therapy) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 under the honorary presidency of Dr. Rolando Benenzon. ADIMU is dedicated to promote the development of music therapy, to promote and give training in music therapy, to promote research in music therapy, to promote exchange of information on music therapy, to promote international cooperation among music therapy associations, music therapists, and other related professionals and institutions, to promote, establish, and maintain professional publications in music therapy.

From 1993 until 2000 ADIMU cooperated with the Department of Music Therapy at the Centro Regional de Salud Mental (University Psychiatric Hospital) of Rosario, Argentina. (Photo: Ulrike Zoellner)

ADIMU is full organizational member of the World Federation of Music Therapy.


OUR APPROACH TO MUSIC THERAPY

THEORY

Our verbal, and subsequently cognitive, development is for a large part based on our individual, pre-verbal, pre-musical sound experiences. In music therapy, therapist as well as patient communicate with each other, each from his own unconscious sound identity. Where they meet in their music, there exists a transitional area of musical forms, which cannot be attributed clearly to one or the other, but which at the same time will be experienced by both partners as their own. The therapist has the task to help develop such forms, so that the client will be able to experience his own sound identity and the emerging deep unconscious material, without having to fear the burden of his individual responsibility for those forms.

PRACTICE

The deep-rooted relationship between sound and human being provides the ground, the foundation for our approach of music therapy. Music therapy makes use of the sound of conventional and non-conventional music instruments, of materials of daily life, of the human voice, and of other sounds produced by the human body, also movement and body language, as a non-verbal means of communication in the therapeutic process, in which all kinds of sounds and noises, even pre-natal acoustic experiences are taken into consideration.

PRINCIPLES

The theory and practice are strongly influenced by two principles:

STAGES

Three stages are described in the music therapy process


SOME CLINICAL CONDITIONS IN WHICH MUSIC THERAPY HAS PROVED TO BE OF VALUE

Depressive disorders, eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa), emotional disturbances, grief, stereotypic behaviors, aphasia/dysphasia, substance abuse or addictions (alcohol, drugs, medicine), terminal illness, victims of sexual abuse, behavior problems, palliative care, borderline personality, CVA (cerebro-vascular accident), delusions, hearing impairment, brain injury, hyperactivity, impulsivity, bipolar disorder, interactional problems, learning disabilities, mania, language disorders, mental handicap, panic disorders, multiple handicaps, multiple personalities, narcissistically injured, neurological sequelae, OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), pain reduction, physical handicaps, Alzheimer' disease, aggressiveness, anxiety, suicide, attentional deficits, seizures, autism, phobias, post-traumatic stress, Rett's syndrome, schizophrenia, developmental problems, self-injury.


Publications Periodicals

Books


Views of Rosario, Argentina



ADIMU
Dr. Gregorio Tisera, director

Mailing address:

Boulevard Oroño 443

2000 Rosario

Argentina

Telephone: (+54-341) 448-0656

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