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Though our research has not found written accounts (yet) of his magical adventures in the healthcare setting, it is said that Houdini often took time to visit hospitals, performing for children through the years…
Houdini performing for children in the hospital!
This picture shows Houdini delighting the children with his sleight of hand and a bunny! We wondered if this depiction might even be an early forerunner to ‘animal therapy,’ back-in-the-day…
Of course still to this day, healthcare family entertainers, hospital clowns and caring clowns also perform magic at patients’ bedsides, often assisted by the patients in various ways.
Since 1984, illusionists Kevin and Cindy Spencer take magic into hospitals in a landmark program called “Healing of Magic,” as a treatment modality for rehabilitation for the physically challenged, approved by the over 50,000 members of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
To read more about the “Healing of Magic” program: http://www.spencersmagic.com/healing_of_magic/
(Photograph from the Library of Congress)
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