Ep 44 Alex Maguire Part 1

Alex Maguire is Senior Music Therapist at Broadmoor high security
hospital specialising in working with high dependency and
intensive care patients. He has presented his work at numerous
conferences and has contributed to the books Forensic Music
Therapy (JKP 2012), ‘Forensic Arts Therapies –Anthology of
Practice & Research’, (FA Press 2016), ‘Working Across
Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations’
(Routledge 2017) and 'Violent States and Creative States; from
the Global to the Individual’ (JKP 2018).


The Broadmoor Hospital choir for both staff and patients, which
he co-founded, has been commended in the Arts and Health Awards,
and performs widely at hospital functions, as well as providing a
Christmas visiting service to the intensive care wards. Alex has
presented at the IAFP Conference in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2017 and
2020. He has a parallel life as an improvising jazz pianist
performing and recording in Europe and further afield.


This episode includes two interviews conducted by Alex with his
colleagues Dr Gwen Adshead and Dr Claire Wilson.


Gwen Adshead is a consultant psychiatrist and group analyst. She
is currently the responsible clinician for a high security ward
in Broadmoor Hospital for severely personality disordered
patients. She has published widely and is known for her work with
both offenders and victims. She is a keen singer and art lover,
recently featured on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.


Claire has worked in the NHS as a psychologist for over twenty
years. She is currently Lead Psychologist in the Integrated Group
Therapies service, which provides mental health restoration and
risk reduction work for the men detained at Broadmoor. She has
contributed to research articles on the prevalence of violence in
institutions and on the evaluation of therapies designed to help
reduce risk.


Maguire, A and Merrick, I (2012) Walking The Line: Music
Therapy In The Context Of The Recovery Approach In A High Secure
Hospital in Adlam, J Odell-Miller, H and
Compton-Dickinson, S (eds.) Forensic Music Therapy. London:
Jessica Kingsley Publishers


Maguire, A and Robertson, C (2015) A Healthy Community
Living Skills Group in a high security hospital. Mental
Health Practice 19, 1, 24-27


 Maguire, A and Merrick, I (2016) From Let It Be to
It Must Be Love: the development of a choir for patients and
staff at a high secure hospital. Arts & Health, 9:1,
73-80


 Maguire, A (2018) Treat Me Nice – Music Therapy and
Extreme Violence in Adlam, J Kluttig, T and Lee, B
(eds.) Violent States and Creative States. London: Jessica
Kingsley Publishers


Maguire, A Guarnieri, M Mindang, M and Thomas, D (2016)
The Internal Bomb in Rothwell, K (ed.) Forensic
Arts Therapies. Anthology Of Practice And Research. London: Free
Association Books


Maguire, A. Bose, S. Ferrito, M. Mindang, M and Ware, A (2018)
Into The Labyrinth; working with Bizarre, Unspeakable and
Extreme Violence in Adlam, J Kluttig, T and Lee, B
(eds.) Violent States and Creative States. London: Jessica
Kingsley Publishers


Maguire, A and Mindang, M (2018) Not What It Says On The
Tin; a family awareness group in a high security
hospital in Colbert, T and Bent, C (eds.) Working Across
Modalities in the Arts Therapies; creative collaborations.
London: Routledge.