Issues in the Training of Music Therapists — Two Views from the Past

Abstract

Relating to the leading article in this edition of the journal, we reprint two short contributions published between 1988 and 1993, focusing on different issues about music therapy training. While these articles originally stood alone, they can be seen as perspectives from the past that also resonate with the present, and the current issue of the journal. They also draw together some general and specific ideas about the development of music therapy and the place of training programmes within this, a topic that is embedded in the Interviews from this issue. Taken as a whole, while very much of their time, these views from the past enable us to both look back and forwards, and provide another perspective from which to view this edition of the journal.