Music Therapy in Perinatal Psychiatry: Use of Lullabies for Pregnant and Postpartum Women with Mental Illness

Music & Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 219-225

  Friedman, Susan Hatters ^a   Kaplan, Ronna S ^b   Rosenthal, Miriam B ^a,b   Console, Patty ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The Music Settlement   (United States)

Author keywords

community psychiatry; music therapy; postpartum; postpartum depression; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990317237     PISSN: 19438621     EISSN: 1943863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1943862110379584     Document Type: Review

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