The Fool in Shakespeare's King Lear is portrayed as an unsuccessful medieval psychotherapist. Parallels are drawn with modern psychotherapeutic practices, especially the potentially dangerous misuse of humour, metaphor, paradox and absurdity by inexperienced therapists.
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