Peruse a collection of cartoons about therapy from our archive. “Will doing so cure you? If laughter is indeed the best medicine, perhaps,” Emma Allen writes. “Anyway, it’ll have to do until the end of August, when your therapist gets back from vacation.”
Therapy and cartooning may very well be symbiotic professions, at this point. For the cartoonist, the doctor serves as both muse and captive audience. Also, it’s a medical fact that, if you shrink a brain enough, its contents are reduced to a single punch line.
And how would therapists know how to arrange their offices, were it not for the definitive décor outlined by cartoonists: couch , plant , framed degree ? Since the earliest days of this magazine, when psychoanalysis was a relatively new shtick, analysts and their patients have been a cartoon staple. Peruse a sampling of the genre, by decade, below. Will doing so cure you? If laughter is indeed the best medicine, perhaps.
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