MTUK (Music Therapy United Kingdom) – a perspective. This article was first presented as a keynote speech at the inaugural conferences of the British Association of Music Therapy in February 2014. It presents ideas about historical divisions and different approaches, and how these might be broached and mended, informed by the author's own experience of practising and being supervised within different approaches. The paper traces some of the history of MTUK and suggests possible future developments.
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