Ep 38 Jamal Glynn

Jamal J Glynn is a registered Music Therapist with the Health and
Care Professions Council in the United Kingdom (HCPC). He holds a
BA in Musical Arts from the University of the West Indies, St
Augustine, and a M.A. in Music Therapy from Anglia Ruskin
University in Cambridge, UK.


He offers under the North West Regional Health Authority in
Trinidad and Tobago Music Therapy to inpatients and outpatients
at the St Ann’s Hospital including the Forensic ward, Chaguanas
Psychiatric Clinic, Barataria Mental Health and Wellness Centre,
Child Guidance Clinic. His work focuses on psychoanalytically
informed approaches.


Being particularly passionate about exploring the benefits of
using the steelpan in Music Therapy within the mental health
setting, he wrote his dissertation on this subject in 2011. He is
interested in providing a Caribbean perspective to existing
knowledge of music therapy interventions and has conducted
research focusing on clients living in Trinidad and Tobago.
Results of his research have been published in the Caribbean
Medical Journal. (Music Therapy and its relationship to
Schizophrenia – A pilot study, Caribbean Medical Journal, volume
75 No. 2 December, 2013, (pg 8-13)


He is also a member of the British Association for Music Therapy
(BAMT), The Association of Psychiatrists of Trinidad and Tobago
(APTT) as an adjunct and the recently formed Creative Arts
Therapies Collective of Trinidad and Tobago (CAT week TT). He is
also a member of the Steelband Phase II Pan Groove.


In this pre-lockdown conversation, Jamal talked about his musical
development and what brought him to music therapy, and there's
lots about steelpan, including a clinical instrumental
illustration midway through the interview. We also discussed the
development of arts therapies provision in the Caribbean, both
from Jamal's own perspective and more generally.


https://aru.ac.uk/graduation-and-alumni/alumni-network/alumni-stories/alumni-of-the-month/jamal-glynn


http://approaches.gr/glynn-br20190915?fbclid=IwAR33FaCjbIcqwRbDANH_MMtHOlRSj7_WTDelsvIYiTWkFShogNI1g1-D7jM


https://newsday.co.tt/2019/11/07/healing-through-pan/


http://www.whensteeltalks.net/2008slideshow/podium08summer/pdfs/Issue17-22.pdf