Christian Hageseth was Fort Collins' own Patch Adams.
The longtime author, public speaker, psychiatrist and physician espoused the healing nature of therapeutic humor and promoted his "compassionate" shock therapy for people with depression. He took his Humor and Health workshops across the country and spoke in front of audiences at well-respected medical institutions. At the same time, he was known in Fort Collins for his work with indigent patients.
By the late 1990s, Hageseth had an extensive resume that would impress even the most humorless people and the staunchest critics of shock therapy. After the American Psychiatric Association expelled Hageseth in 1998 and his Colorado medical license was revoked for a relationship with a patient who later became his wife, the Fort Collins resident worked to overcome his lost career.
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