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«Art and music touch places in the young patients where no injection can reach.»
Petula Clark, singer, songwriter and patron of the Fondation ART-THERAPIE -
«Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.»
Johnny Depp -
«Music can build bridges where the spoken language cannot.»
Valeri Gergiev, conductor and opera company director, patron oft he Fondation ART-THERAPIE -
«In a peripheral hospital, paediatrics is like a safe harbour»
Dr. Valdo Pezzoli, head physician at the paediatrics department in the regional hospital of Lugano -
«Art- and music therapy allow the patient to become immerged in another world.»
C.B., art-therapist at University Children’s Hospital Zurich -
«It is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.»
D. W. Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst
Music therapy in the ward for pregnant women
Women with high-risk pregnancies
Since late 2016, women with high-risk pregnancies and their endangered unborn children are supported with music therapy in order to reduce their fears and strengthen the mother-child relationship, which is made difficult during the stay at hospital. Bonding is promoted as well.
After birth, the premature and sick new-borns are supported by the same music therapist on the neonatology ward of the paediatric university hospital of Basel to ensure best treatment.
A TV commercial by Swisslos presented this innovative therapy on Swiss television. To be seen on Youtube.
Responsible:
Prof. Dr. Irene Hösli, Chefärztin Geburtshilfe und Schwangerschaftsmedizin
Anette Wetzel-Schwöble, Leiterin Pflege, Abt. Schwangerschaftsmedizin
Monika Esslinger, Klinische Musiktherapeutin MAS SFMT
Foto: Derek Li Wan Po, Universitätsspital Basel
