Contents. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Richards, Preface. Group Music Therapy: Historical Perspectives. Davies A History of Group Work in Music Therapy. Odell-Miller and Richards A Personal Account of the Development of Music Therapy Groups in the UK. Group Therapy: A Group Analytic Perspective. Barwick Core Concepts in Group Analysis: The development of the principle of interconnectedness. Barwick Core Concepts in Group Analysis: What happens in groups? Barwick Core Concepts in Group Analysis: What does the conductor do? Barwick Developments in Group Analysis: The mother approach. Barwick Developments in Group Analysis: The other approach. Group Music Therapy: Developmental Perspectives. Davies Early Years: Experiences with others. Richards Music, Attachment and the Group: Mainly theory. Richards Music, Attachment and the Group: mainly practice. Group Music Therapy: Clinical Perspectives. Clinical Vignettes. Davies Co-therapy. Davies Experiential Groups.
Alison Davies trained as a music therapist and a psychoanalytic
psychotherapist. She has worked in the NHS and in private practice
and has run groups for music therapy trainees at Anglia Ruskin
University, Cambridge, and the Guildhall School of Music, London.
She has also taught and run groups for the Philadelphia Association
psychotherapy training.
Eleanor Richards is a senior lecturer in music therapy at Anglia
Ruskin University, Cambridge, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist
and supervisor in private practice. She has a longstanding interest
in group work and is involved in the development of music therapy
training and practice in India.
Nick Barwick is a group analyst who has conducted groups in the
NHS, higher education and private practice. He is Head of
Counselling at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London,
where he also teaches on the MA in Music Therapy. He is immediate
past editor of the journal Psychodynamic Practice.
This is a rich book that attends closely to the dynamics of groups in music therapy. The authors show how group analytic thinking matters in music therapy, alongside and combined with musical thinking. Therapists and students from many different backgrounds will find much to learn from here. - Donald Wetherick, Chair, British Association for Music Therapy
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