Graham Music

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Dr Graham Music (PHD) is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and an adult psychotherapist in private practice.

He has a particular interest in exploring the interface between developmental findings and clinical work. Formerly Associate Clinical Director of the Tavistock and Portman’s Child and Family Department, he has managed a range of services working with the aftermath of child maltreatment and neglect and organised many community-based psychotherapy services. Dr Music currently works clinically with forensic cases at The Portman Clinic. He teaches, lectures and supervises students in the UK and abroad.

Dr Music’s 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), as well as many book chapters and journal articles.