Music Therapy: Connecting Lyrics to the Hospital Experience

In music therapy, there are many types of interventions and experiences that patients and families can participate in. One of those experiences, lyric analysis, allows patients and families to choose specific songs with lyrics that feel relevant to their hospital experience to help process their emotions. Our music therapist, Bethany Pincus, worked closely with the family of a critical patient to help them process their daughter’s long and emotional hospitalization using lyric analysis.

With the use of lyric analysis, the family benefited from music therapy to allow them to safely process all the emotions that come with a prolonged admission, including happiness, sadness, hope and anger.