Learning to laugh: humor as therapy.

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J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv. 1990 Mar;28(3):31-5.

Learning to laugh: humor as therapy.

Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services

E A Pasquali

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Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530.

PMID: 2313620

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Use of humor may indicate a person's mental health status, may reveal psychosocial problems and conflicts, and may indicate ability to cope with those problems and conflicts. Humor may also be one way of helping people more effectively cope with the stresses and strains of living in a complex world. Humor may be incorporated into psychotherapy, either as part of the therapist-client relationship or as a humor program. The humor used by the author in a humor program with chronically mentally ill clients is the laughing with, not the laughing at, type. It deals with problems of life and of people living life. The stories, jokes, comic strips, and songs selected show how people perceive and laugh at the ironies and absurdities in their predicaments and are able to cope with, and frequently transcend, them.

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