The creation of a group including a Psycho-Music Therapy team (EPMt) within the SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo hospital's Department of Mental Health

The music therapist is a musician able to use music and its elements in an individual or within a group relationship, through a well-defined process in order to promote favorable changes in quality of life (QoL) among people with different problems. In February 2019, within the main building of the SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo hospital, a specific area was made available to this group for their meetings. This room was renamed maternal womb and this space was chosen because neutral, not identified as a psychiatric area. We have carried out laboratory interventions of music teaching for patients and hospital staff that have simultaneously become an opportunity for the student internship of the three-year teaching course in music therapy of the Vivaldi Conservatory of Alessandria. These first activities have made it possible to share and deepen the knowledge of languages between musicians/music therapists and health professionals, thus constituting a Psycho-Music Therapy team (EPMt) watchful and attentive to mutual listening targeted towards the common aim of understanding and offering, to those who have a complexity of experiences related to psychological discomfort, alternative methods of communication. This contribution will develop and integrate the points of view of a music therapist, a psychiatrist and a nurse.