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In the wee midnight hours, long ‘fore the break of day In the wee midnight hours, long before the break of day When the blues creep upon you and carry your mind away.

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  • The Casebooks of Ticehurst House are in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London NWI

  • This paper is not about music therapy, but rather it looks at the words in the Blues: firstly how they describe the psychiatric symptomatology of the singer, secondly how they can serve a therapeutic effect, and introducing the concept of 'lexithymia'

  • 'Feeling blue' or 'the blues' is another way of describing sadness; terms joining the range of synonyms we already have for that emotion - 'lowspirited', 'down-hearted', and many more - in short, the lay meaning of the term 'depression'

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The Casebooks of Ticehurst House are in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London NWI. This paper is not about music therapy, but rather it looks at the words in the Blues: firstly how they describe the psychiatric symptomatology of the singer, secondly how they can serve a therapeutic effect, and introducing the concept of 'lexithymia'.

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