Elżbieta Jadwiga Galińska

Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology · Nevrosis Clinic

Monografia "W pułapce autodestrukcyjnego mózgu nastolatka. Skuteczna terapia" powstała jako uwieńczenie współpracy ekspertów – klinicystów i naukowców, psychologów i psychiatrów, leczących i prowadzących działania profilaktyczne w populacji osób młodych z zaburzeniami psychicznymi. Książka ma za zadanie wprowadzenie czytelnika w autodestrukcyjne me...

"Profilaktyka i leczenie zaburzeń odżywiania – wiedza ekspercka”, powstała jako zwieńczenie realizacji zadania Narodowego Programu Zdrowia w 2017 roku. Po raz pierwszy w Polsce modele leczenia zaburzeń odżywiania zostały opisane przez ekspertów – kierowników klinik i oddziałów ukierunkowanych na terapię pacjentów z zaburzeniami odżywiania, którzy p...

The neurologic music therapy is a new scope of music therapy. Its techniques deal with dysfunctions resulting from diseases of the human nervous system. Music can be used as an alternative modality to access functions unavailable through non-musical stimulus. Processes in the brain activated by the influence of music can be generalized and transfe...

A collection of memories from 5th World Congress of Music Therapy, 1985, Genoa

This article is about the need to be aware that when one introduces music into therapy one is manipulating the patient’s self-structure. It is therefore necessary to understand how music is organized from the perspective of its form and constituting structures. Five types of musical structure have been identified on the basis of musicological analy...

This is a validation study of the selection of music for two assessment instruments constructed by Galińska, the Musical Portrait method and the Imaging of a Person technique. Validation is carried out with the help of another of the author's measurement instruments, The Musical Identity Test. The object of the study is to establish the concordance...

The clinical part of the study of which part I, was published in the last issue of "Pyschoterapia" (2005;4) provides examples of psychodramas with patients which lead to the integration and their own rebirth in all of the aforementioned dimensions.

The concept of forming a self-presentation by non-psychotic patients based on family transfers generating the state of threat and helplessness received by them is described in the article. These transfers include negative emotions like anxiety, aggression or sadness. On the one hand they cause shame or wake fear, lowering high self-esteem and self-...

The article is a theoretical part of the work written as part of the requirement to obtain a degree in the European Institute of Psychodrama in Berlin (das Psychodrama Institut für Europa PIfE). It concerns the subject of death, which is a difficult, traumatic area of experience, rarely brought up in the psychodramatic literature. The concept of de...

The paper presents fragments of reparative work with non-psychotic patients, using the Moreno's psychodrama method and music therapy (the Musical Portrait method of E. Galińska, concerning the "self" structure of the patient and the identity therapy) in the light of Melanie Klein's theory. Reparation of mourning (based on the dreams of the patient)...

In 1995 I have included the instrumental version of the J.R.Moreno psychodrama into the method of musical portrait (developed in 1973, concerning the "self" structure). From that time, I have begun systematic therapy of traumatic experiences, including the so-called "surplus reality". The method of determining the musical portrait (MP) has been thu...

In the paper, the author describes disturbances of the sense of identity of non psychotic patients, manifesting itself as fuzzification and covering up of their own boundaries, when they fulfill their social roles. These disturbances are also connected with improper identification of the patients with their own age and sex (in the sense of social p...

Basic problems of the treatment of schizophrenic patients by means of music therapy and Moreno's psychodrama were outlined. The sonority area of psychotic patients, function of music background in the psychiatric ward, as well as therapeutic specific of music in schizophrenia was discussed. In the case of psychodrama the importance of the body area...

The receptive group music therapy described, is a method for the treatment of neuroses in the field of complex therapy, applied at the neurological clinic in Warsaw. The principles of choice of music, and attitudes of physicians as well as the applied activation, communication and interpretation techniques carried out by physicians in the group are...