Date: 23 - 24 November 2007
Venue: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Keynote Speaker: Dr Julie Sutton

'Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless.. traumatic events overwhelm the ordinary systems of care that give people a sense of control, connection and meaning'. (Herman, 1992)

Increasingly, trauma is being recognised as the source of a wide range of pathologies and manifestations of psychological distress. At this conference, music therapists from the UK, Israel, Slovenia and Germany presented work with people who have been traumatised as a result of a range of experiences including war and conflict, abuse, disability, maternal separation and depression and brain injury.

Speakers included music therapists from UK, Israel, Slovenia & Germany.

Dr Julie Sutton is a clinician-researcher at the Centre for Psychotherapy in Belfast. She has worked as a music therapist in Dublin, London, Mostar, Belfast and Minsk, Belarus.

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