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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 18 June 2009
 
Not so golden oldie seeks music therapist

• I WOULD urge any person older than 65 to mull for many lifetimes before embarking on music therapy at Nordoff-Robbins (Little Archie blown away by the flute, June 11).
Young people are their speciality.
Their enthusiastic therapists-in-training need many years of experience as opposed to never-ending theorising before they are allowed to work with golden, or not so golden, oldies like myself.
Unlike Archie, aged five, I am a 72-year-old word-obsessed poet/journalist who five years ago asked for an older/experienced woman therapist to help me to come to better terms with my mortality “before it is too late”.
I landed up with a man therapist half my age, whose inner three-year-old has turned out far less joyful than even mine is.
If there is a music therapist capable of expressing her anger and tears, and is sufficiently experienced to deal with the needs and greeds of my old age, working anywhere in north London, I would like to meet her.
John Horder
West End Lane
NW6



Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@thecnj.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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