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This article presents the current situation of music therapy, marked by the emergence of neuromusic therapy, which follows the numerous published research studies on the place of music in brain functioning. Is this scientification a threat to analytical group music therapy? The author shows the interest of these advances, some of which shed light on clinical observations, while underlining their limits when it is not the brain but the person that is at stake. Analytical group music therapy offers a regressive situation that explores the relationships between group members. In this context, music, notably because of the age of its psychic inscription (age confirmed by these studies), constitutes a very rich form of mediation. It offers a support for projection and transference mobilization favourable to the psychoanalytical approach.