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Article: ETCETERA
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 8, 1994
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I'm lucky to be physically fit and have a roof over my head, but
the rest of my life is bleak. I'm recently divorced, my wife isn't
interested in friendship and we have no children. Someone said I
might try laughter therapy, but I defy anyone to tell me how it
could help.
Perhaps you don't see much to laugh at, and I can sympathise,
but my laughter work is not about achieving mindless mirth. In the
workshops and counselling I run, my approach is intended to be
life-enhancing. While psychotherapy tends to dwell on the problem,
I look at the goals people want to achieve and help them to see new
possibilities in what has happened. We have playful exercises in
the workshops; there is one where ...