The origins of you: how childhood shapes later life

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Graham Music

Graham Music is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics and an adult psychotherapist in private practice. His publications include Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Hope using neurobiology, psychoanalysis and attachment (2019), Nurturing Natures: Attachment and children’s emotional, sociocultural and brain development (2016, 2010), Affect and Emotion (2001), and The Good Life: Wellbeing and the New Science of altruism, selfishness and immorality (2014). He has a particular interest in exploring the interface between developmental findings and clinical work. He was formerly an Associate Clinical Director in the Tavistock Child and Family Department; he has also worked therapeutically with maltreated children for over two decades and has managed a range of services concerned with the aftermath of child maltreatment and neglect. He organised community-based therapy services, particularly in schools. and in GP practices. He is now working at the Portman Clinic, a specialist forensic service for children, young people and adults. He organises training for therapists in CAMHS, leads on teaching on attachment, the brain and child development, teaches and supervises on the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Child Psychotherapy Training and many trainings in Britain and abroad.