Music therapy is the clinical use of music to support emotional, cognitive and physical wellbeing, though the underlying mechanics — communal singing, structured sound, shared narrative — are ancient. In this story, no one calls Alex Warren’s concerts therapy, yet practitioners would recognize the elements: bereaved fans using his songs and presence to process loss aloud, together, in a ritual they invented themselves at the stage barrier.
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Mentioned in: He Lost Both Parents and Found a Choir of the Bereaved: Alex Warren and the Music of Grief