Approaches: Music Therapy & Special Music Education | First View © Approaches / ΕΕΜΑΠΕ 1 ISSN: 1791-9622 Book review Group Music Therapy: A Group Analytic Approach (Alison Davies, Eleanor Richards & Nick Barwick) Reviewed by Mitsi Akoyunoglou-Christou Title: Group Music Therapy: A Group Analytic Approach | Authors: Alison Davies, Eleanor Richards & Nick Barwick | Year: 2015 | Publisher: Routledge | Pages: 183 | ISBN: 978-0-415-66594-0 Mitsi Akoyunoglou-Christou is a registered music therapist (US), holds a Bachelor’s (1987) and a Master’s (1990) in Music Therapy from Michigan State University as well as a PhD in Musical Sciences, Music Therapy (2014) from Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. She received her piano diploma (Athenaeum Conservatory) with pianist N. Semitekolo. She works as a piano instructor and a music therapist at the Aegeas/Nakas Conservatory in Chios. Her research interests are on ethno-music-therapy, children with emotional challenges and grief. She is a member of ESPEM and WFMT and a member of the advisory editorial board of Approaches. Email: ehristou@otenet.gr “By the crowd they have been broken, by the crowd they shall be healed” (Marsh 1933, cited in Davies, Richards & Barwick 2015: 29). As the title suggests, Group Music Therapy: A Group Analytic Approach, this book provides a bridge between the group analytic theory that originated in Great Britain and its application in group music therapy. Group analysis, a term coined by Burrow in 1925, has evolved greatly since Pratt (who is considered the founding father of group therapy) conducted the first therapeutic groups in Boston, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the 20 th century (Behr & Hearst 2005). Group analysis is also the formal label applied to the therapeutic approach of the British psychoanalyst Foulkes, where “the individual is being treated in the context of the group with the active participation of the group” (Foulkes & Anthony 1957/2003: 16). Within the last decade, group music therapy has become a topic of interest for researchers, practitioners and clinicians, resulting in a continuously growing body of literature (e.g. Ahonen-Eerikainen 2007; Amir & Borden 2013; Cho 2013; Davies & Richards 2002; Hessenberg & Schmid 2013; Jackson & Gardstrom 2012; Pavlicevic 2003). A great addition to this list is this newly published book Group Music Therapy: A Group Analytic Approach by Davies, Richards and Barwick, which investigates analytic theories behind group work and its relation to group music therapy. The authors are clinicians and researchers practising in the UK and they come from diverse clinical backgrounds, which allow them to offer their different perspectives concerning group work in analytic terms within music therapy. Barwick, a group analyst himself, draws mainly from Foulkes’ group analytic theory to set the stage for this book, a theory which takes into account both individual analytic approaches and ‘one-to-one’ practices as well as group dynamics. Davies and Richards, both music therapists and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, focus on the exchange between music therapy, group improvisations in music and