Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, "The Joy of the Joyous Girl"...
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They are then trained by Dr Clown to deal with issues pertaining specifically to the hospital context such as the health-care environment, confidentiality, the psychosocial make-up of the patients and their families, the objectives of health-care workers, and hygiene and disease control regulations.
Through their level of language, their vocabulary, and the accessories they use, therapeutic clowns help relieve the stress of hospitalization by transporting the patient into a world of imagination, mischief, and play, thus allowing the patient to see the hospital environment through a different, more positive eye.
The clowns give Hasan a shaker, a pair of maracas to the orderly and bells to the nurse, leaving Dr Frogge on the kazoo and Dr Quenouille on her flute, and off they go in a motley parade down to surgery.
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