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On October 15th last the MA Music Therapy, Irish World Academy hosted a continuous professional development event for music therapists on ‘Musical pleasure and treating anhedonia in music therapy’ facilitated by Professor Kat McFerran (University of Melbourne, Australia). This event was attended by over 20 professional music therapists across Ireland and organised by Dr Tríona McCaffrey (Associate Professor of Music Therapy) and Ms Sarah Alley (Music Therapist and PhD Researcher). Professor McFerran has written 6 books, 35 book chapters, and 132 journal articles, as well as a TedX Talk called ‘Returning from the Darkside with Music’ (with 130,000 views) and a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) called taken by over 31,000 people across the world to date