Giggling is the Best Medicine
Meet the new crop of so-called “laughter therapists”
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8 min readSep 3, 2019
In 1964, at age 49, Norman Cousins — then best-known as the editor of the Saturday Review, a now defunct weekly magazine — collapsed in the middle of his living room floor. He was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with sudden-onset degenerative collagen disease, a connective tissue condition that rendered him nearly…
