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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
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: clare.ocallaghan{at}petermac.org.
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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.
First published on January 15, 2008, doi:10.1177/1049909107310139
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® 2008;25:93.
A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2008
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