Journals

Below is a list of journals articles that Graham Music has written.
  • Music, G, (in press) What About the Children?
    Free psychotherapy with children and families. A beacon of radicalism or a neoliberal retreat. Free Psychotherapy network
    retreat from political action? Walking the tightrope
  • Music, G (2023) Busy brains on Thin Ice: New Thoughts on psyche Soma and how minds over-develop to cope with trauma. Psychoanalytic study of the Child
  • Music, G (in press) NHS crisis and nursing the nurses: Lessons in managing stress and facilitating safer, compassionate working in a pre-Covid hospital intervention in Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal
  • Music, G (2023).  Latency? If only. Rethinking middle childhood, its developmental tasks, neurobiology, cultural differences and how trauma and neglect undermine its course; Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy
  • Sarah van Gogh, Graham Music (2022) Igniting the Spark. Published interview for BACP Private Practice Journal
  • Music, G., (2022). Resparking from flatness: New thoughts on shut-down states after trauma and neglect. Journal of Child Psychotherapy.
  • Music, G. (2022) Attachment, Deadness, Desire, and Addictive Buzz Traps, Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Ann Ooms: Celayne Heaton-Shrestha; Sarah Connor; Siobhan McCawley; Jennie McShannon; Graham Music; Kay Trainor (2022) Enhancing the Weellbeing of frontlien health care workers in high pressure clinical environments.  International Journal of Nursing Studies vol 132
  • Music, G. (2021). Being safe and being brave: new thoughts on trauma, and adaptations to technique. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy:1–17.
  • Music, G. (2021) Observation, attention and awareness:  emotional states and bodily clues, Caspari Journal of educational Therapy
  • Wren, B., Launer, J., Music, G., Reiss, M.J. and Swanepoel, A., (2021). Can an evolutionary perspective shed light on maternal abuse of children? Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 26(1), pp.283–294
  • Music, G (2020) Covid, racism and Black Lives Matter:  Developmental Child Welfare
  • Music, G (2020)  One Foot in the Ditch: A Discussion of “Accompaniment in Jazz and Psychoanalysis”  Psychoanalytic Dialogues  DOI 10.1080/10481885.2020.1774342
  • Music, G (2019) Babies and Bathwaters: Attachment, neuroscience evolution and the left.  Soundings
  • Music,G (2019) Internet sex and Pornography.  Children and Young People Journal (BACP)
  • B. Wren, J.Launer,  M.Reiss, Swanepole, A., G.Music, (2019) Can Evolutionary Thinking Shed light on Gender Diversity?  BJPsych Advances
  • Music, G (2019) Clinical Commentary: British Journal of Psychotherapy
  • Music, G  (2018) Trauma and treading carefully: Walking delicate tightropes between safeness and emotional challenge. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 17:3,135-144, DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2018.1480203
  • Music, G., (2017) NHS Mental Health Staff: Securely Attached or Under Attack? BACP Healthcare journal, pp.14–17.
  • Swanepoel, A., Music, G., Launer, J. and Reiss, M., () How evolution can help us understand ADHD. BJPsych Advances.  
  • Music, G (2017) Sensible Adaptations with Unfortunate Costs: Some Thoughts about Attachment Styles Caspari Journal
  • Music, G. (2016) Angels and devils: sadism and violence in children. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 42 (3), 302–317.
  • Music, Graham (2016), Adaptation: A Contemporary View, Revisiting Crichton-Miller’s 1925 Paper. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 92: 128–133.
  • Music, G (2016) ‘Attached to Attachment? Attachment Theory, Therapy, and Future Directions’ – Attachment New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis Journal 9(3).
  • Swanepole, A.,  D.F. Sieff,  G.Music,  J.Launder,  M.Reiss. and  B. Wren (2016) How evolution can help us understand child development and behaviour.  Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
  • Music, G. 2015  Psychoanalysis, Altruism, Neoliberalism and Emotional Poverty New Associations, issue 18, pp. 4-5
  • Music, G. 2015. Bringing Up the Bodies: Psyche–Soma, Body Awareness and Feeling At Ease. British Journal of Psychotherapy 31(1), pp. 4–19.
  • Music, G. 2015. The Warm Blooded Infant Beneath the Salamander’s Skin: The Complexity of Challenging Bullies While Reaching Out to the Hidden Vulnerable Child. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 25(1), pp. 29–34.
  • Music, G. (2014) Top down and bottom up: trauma, executive functioning, emotional-regulation, the brain and child psychotherapy. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 40 (1), 3–19.
  • Music, G. 2014. The buzz trap: Speeded-up lives, distractedness, impulsiveness and decreasing empathy. Psychodynamic Practice 20(3), pp. 228–249
  • Music, G. 2013 Stress pre-birth: How the Fetus is Affected by a Mother’s State of Mind. International Journal of Birth & Parent Education. 1 (1), 12–15.
  • Music, G. 2013 Innately proscial: Altruism is inborn but can be sidelined.  Counselling Children and Young People
  • Music, G., 2012. Selfless genes, altruism and trauma: research and clinical implicationsBritish Journal of Psychotherapy, 28(2), pp.154–171.
  • Music, G., 2012. Fragile Foetuses. Counselling Children and Young People, (1), pp.2–7.
  • Music, G., 2011. Trauma, helpfulness and selfishness: the effect of abuse and neglect on altruistic, moral and pro-social capacities. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 37(2), pp.113-128.
  • Music, G., 2011. Misdiagnosed and Misunderstood (abused and neglected children). Counselling Children and Young People. (2) pp 2-6
  • Music, G., 2010. Struggling with cultural prejudice while observing babies: Egocentric and sociocentric Positions. International Journal of Infant Observation, 13(2), 189-208.
  • Music, G., 2010. When Life Has been Sucked Out: Working with Neglected Children. Counselling Children and Young People, (1).
  • Music, G., 2009. Containing not Blaming: Therapeutic Work in Schools. Therapy Today, 20(6), 20-24.
  • Music, G., 2009. Neglecting neglect: some thoughts about children who have lacked good input, and are ‘undrawn’and ‘unenjoyed’. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 35(2), 142-156
  • Music, G., 2009. What has psychoanalysis got to do with happiness? Reclaiming the positive in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 25(4), 435-455.
  • Music, G., 2008. From scapegoating to thinking and finding a home: delivering therapeutic work in schools. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 34(1), 43-61.
  • Music, G. & Hall, B., 2007. Learning our lessons: some issues arising from delivering mental health services in school settings. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 21(1), 1-19.
  • Music, G., 2005. Surfacing the depths: thoughts on imitation, resonance and growth. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 31(1), 72-90
  • Music, G., 2004. A mole leaves his hole. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 18(3), 285-304.
  • Music, G., 2004. The old one-two. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 30(1), 21-37

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