Introduction

This book is about the supervision of music therapy work, and forms part of a series on supervision in the arts therapies and other related disciplines, such as sandplay therapy. As such, it focuses upon the unique aspects of music therapy supervision, and at the same time refers to interdisciplinary theory and practice from other professions, such as psychotherapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and from other health-related professions. It adds to the existing book Music Therapy Supervision, by Forinash (2001), published in the USA, and takes a clinical and academic focus, drawing particularly upon UK and other European practice of music therapy supervision. A major inspiration for the book was a national conference hosted by Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, in 2003 on supervision of music therapy. Some of the thinking behind the chapters started there and many of the contributors to this book first presented their ideas at that conference.