Ep 14 Dr Helen Odell-Miller OBE

Luke talks to Helen Odell-Miller about music therapy and
psychoanalysis, group work in adult mental health settings,
research into music therapy and dementia, and many other
things. 


Dr Helen Odell-Miller OBE is a Professor of Music Therapy, and
Director of the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research at
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Helen has lectured
widely, and has been a keynote speaker at many national and
international conferences in Europe, Australia, Asia and the USA.
She has worked with parliament and the government advising on
music therapy.  Most recently she was one of the
Commissioners for the Music and Dementia Strategy in the UK,
produced by the International Longevity Centre, and launched at
the House of Lords in January 2018: What would life be? Without a
Song or Dance, What are We? 


Helen is co-editor and an author for the books Supervision of
Music Therapy (Jessica Kingsley 2009), Forensic Music Therapy
(Routledge 2013) and Collaboration and Assistance in Music
Therapy Practice (2017). She has published widely in national and
international peer reviewed journals and authored many book
chapters. She is a pianist, violinist, and a singer in Cambridge
Voices chamber choir. 


References:


Odell-Miller, H., 2001. Music therapy and its relationship to
psychoanalysis. Where analysis meets the arts, pp.127-152.


Wilson, S. ed., 2017. Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology.
Routledge.