Development of a music-therapeutic reference system that should contribute to the establishment of a creative way of life for a sufferer of CED. Therefore an overview of the clinical picture, the medical aetiology, the living situation of a CED sufferer and the general psychological and music-therapeutic research is obtained. The basics here are the bio-psycho-social model, the salutogenesis and the Gestalt therapy with its awareness-excitement contact cycle. The psycho-social treatment and support comprise the containment, coping with stress, strengthening resilience by stimulating resources, development of coping strategies, encouraging compliance and the treatment of of pain without medicine