Lullament: Lullaby and Lament Therapeutic Qualities Actualized Through Music Therapy

@article{OCallaghan2008LullamentLA,
  title={Lullament: Lullaby and Lament Therapeutic Qualities Actualized Through Music Therapy},
  author={Clare O’Callaghan},
  journal={American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine{\textregistered}},
  year={2008},
  volume={25},
  pages={93 - 99},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:206633408}
}
  • C. O’Callaghan
  • Published in The American journal of… 15 January 2008
  • Psychology, Medicine
  • American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
A music therapist used a grounded theory—informed design to reflexively analyze lullaby and lament qualities, evident in more than 20 years of personal palliative care practice, and the construct “lullament” emerged, which signified helpful moments when patients' and families' personal and sociohistorical relationship with lullabies and laments were actualized.
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