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Lullament: Lullaby and Lament Therapeutic Qualities Actualized Through Music Therapy

Clare O'Callaghan, PhD, MMus, BMus, BSW, RMT

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Caritas Christi Hospice, St Vincent's Health, Victoria, Australia, clare.ocallaghan{at}petermac.org

Lullabies and laments promote new awareness, enculturation, adaptation, and grief expression. These concepts' relevance to palliative care, however, has not been examined. In this study, 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. Thus, the construct "lullament" emerged, which signified helpful moments when patients' and families' personal and sociohistorical relationship with lullabies and laments were actualized. Specific music could be both a lullaby and a lament. A music therapist can enable the lullament through providing opportunities for music-contextualized "restorative resounding," expressed psychobiologically, verbally, musically, and metaphorically.

Key Words: lullaby • lament • music therapy • palliative care • practice research

This version was published on May 1, 2008

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Vol. 25, No. 2, 93-99 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1049909107310139
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