How Music-Inspired Weeping Can Help Terminally Ill Patients

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-243

  Norton, Kay ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actively dying; Music; Self esteem; Terminal illness; Weeping

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CRYING; EMOTION; GRIEF; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MUSIC; MUSIC THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF CONCEPT; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CATHARSIS; COMMUNICATION; CRYING; EMOTIONS; GRIEF; HUMANS; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; MUSIC; MUSIC THERAPY; SELF CONCEPT; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 79961173954     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-011-9140-x     Document Type: Article

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