This is a rich, challenging and welcome book on the importance of music in psychoanalysis by Ludovica Grassi who is a neuropsychiatrist, psychoanalyst and musician. Grassi describes the tradition of transcription in music and makes links between the process of musical translation and psychic work. The sound of the unconscious: psychoanalysis as music: by Ludovica Grassi, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, 141 pp., RRP £29.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-367-645553-3 Grier, like Grassi, has a deep interest in the place of music within psychoanalysis. [Extracted from the article]