Conference given at
"Latitudes Conferences", 19th July, 2005 in the Cultural Centre of “Moulin de La Toulzanie" (Lot, France)
Cycle Organized by Pr Barbara Philips, PhD
In our culture, the musical criteria which can have an determined physiological effect are not well-defined yet. On the contrary, other civilizations (China, India especially) have described with rigorousness and details how sonorous emissions work. But explanations given by these cultures, are not translated in term of modern physiology. The “musicotherapy” studies the processes using the interaction between the patient and his surroundings.
The
sounds therapy can have various applications, like when we speak about
“musicotherapy” :
In
his common meaning and without using the treatment of the signal, the
musicotherapy can enter in the treatment strategy in all cases almost, at the
expense of the imagination, of the culture and of the practitioner know-how. It
will be a question of relieving anguish, of restoring or improving the
communication, removing inhibitions, easing the gesture and motor
coordination’s harmony.
Indications
for the classical musicotherapy |
Sensorial -motor physiotherapy for spastic, sensorial or linguistic handicapped persons. Rhythmic method
for the mentally deficient persons ; body and personality disorders. |
Stimulation for
hypersomnia, for cerebral ageing (brain training), for psychomotor inhibitions
; going with Sakel therapy, “moist packs”, easing and wake-up of anaesthetic
or coma |
Sedation :
Anxiety, Insomnia . |
Some methods get a
more precise specific objective:
1. The Lafon appliance in order
to improve the comfort and the linguistic ability of the deaf person by
transposition of frequencies towards “lower pitch”
2. The cassettes conceived in
order to ease relaxation (suggestions given by the voice of “terpnos logos”
of Caycedo, or “soaring” musics).
3. The Feijoo sounds used for
obstetrical dental analgesia (very
low-pitched sounds, very simple and of which the length fluctuates)
4. The « suvag lingua »
of Gubérina for the reeducation of the deaf person or the learning of foreign
languages (it is question of a bench of filters “passes” ; a kind of equalizer)
5. The Lexiphone of Isi Beller in order to treat the
dyslexia (this appliance gives the most high-pitched sound that can be listened
by the patient ; this sound is set
up by the fundamental of the voice of the patient and given in real time
when this last one is speaking or is reading a text)
6. The electronic
ear and its like :
a.
« sémiophone » of Isi Beller,
b.
filter
of Bérard,
c. akousmatix
of Auriol and Thourel, etc.
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All these methods have Tomatis as instigator more or less direct,
who the first, has suggested to cure by this way :
1.The vocal troubles
of the singer, and the psychological “dysphonia” (stammering).
2.hearing sensitiveness
; excessive or decreasing sensitiveness
3.Some reading, writing
and spelling difficulties
4.Some attention difficulties
: hyperkinetic child (ADHD), unstable, inattentive
5.Trouble linked with
a disturbance of the desire to communicate and to learn. Gerard Depardieu
(1988) among others, famous or less famous, stress upon the releasing
produced by the filtered sounds therapy.