The British Journal of Music Therapy: A 25-year retrospective

To mark 25 years of the British Journal of Music Therapy (BJMT) since the millennium in 2000, we have invited editors of the journal over the past quarter century to reflect on their time in this role and offer their thoughts about the music therapy profession. Their responses are presented here with minimal editing and without commentary as a contribution to the history of BJMT and its role in the music therapy profession. Exceptionally for BJMT, this article has not been peer- reviewed, but all authors have read each other’s contributions and offered corrections of fact where needed. We are grateful to them for the time and effort they have put into responding to this initiative. Each contributor was asked to reflect on the issues they faced during their time as editor, and to choose articles published under their editorship which they felt represented significant developments in practice or thinking in the profession. They were also invited to give their thoughts on the current and future role for BJMT. Articles are not referenced in the standard way but titles, authors, year of publication and BJMT issue numbers are given, with active links in the online edition of the journal.