© 2002 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
PERSONAL VIEW
The love strategy
Humour and love: the origination of clown therapy
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr P Adams, Gesundheit Institute, 6855 Washington Blvd, Arlington, VA 22213, USA;
Heidi@SillyStuff.org
Compassion, joy, love, and humour are essential to build healthy and peaceful societies
Keywords: humour; love strategy; clown therapy
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The events of terror in the United States on 11 September 2001 have provoked many reactions and the traditional revenge/fear action. The casual, quick acceptance of this response globally, instead of outrage over more senseless carnage, is symptomatic, in medical jargon, of a massive malignant cancer in human society. Also symptomatic is that, on the same day, over 30 000 children died of starvation and there was no noise heard.
As I explore the health of the human society, with the same tender, thoughtful compassion I have explored individual patients, I find the "patient" in critical condition, needing global universal attention. Why do we revere our diversions, and neglect our collective health? We live in a country where athletes and actresses are multimillionaires. Though school teachers are second only to mothers in supporting a healthy human society, in the US, 60% have to hold second jobs to
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