Ep 22 Ann Sloboda

Ann Sloboda is Head of Music Therapy at the Guildhall School of
Music & Drama. She is a registered psychoanalyst (British
Psychoanalytic Council) and music therapist (HCPC). She studied
music at Oxford University, and qualified as a music therapist
from GSMD in 1985. Between 1985 and 2005 she worked as a music
therapist in the NHS, in adult learning disability, eating
disorders, general and forensic psychiatry. She has undertaken
research in music therapy with PTSD. A past chair of the
Association of Professional Music Therapists, she was Head of
Arts Therapies at West London Mental Health Trust for 10 years.


In this interview Luke talked to Ann about her personal
development as a music therapist and, later, psychoanalyst, as
well as about the development of the training course at the
Guildhall School. Ann also encouraged Luke to reflect on some of
his own experiences as a trainee, which led to some interesting
shared reflections on the nature of training, including personal
motivations for embarking on a therapeutic career. Ann discussed
her own very particular experience of music therapy as a client,
with the pioneering analytic music therapist Mary Priestley.