Maintaining Your Balance: Keeping a Sense of Humor

"Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage." (Erma Bombeck)

Benefits of Humor

Humor is a rare topic in the literature. This article might be helpful to practitioners.
More psychologists are finding that discrete uses of humor promote healing in their patients APA Monitor March 1999 (Volume 30, Number 3)

Links to Humor-bearing Websites

http://www.psychotherapy. net/humor/
Irvin Yalom offers jokes & cartoons on his website which also contains resources on the serious side of this field (e.g., interviews, articles, DVDs, CEU credits, signed books, etc.).
For those who don't know his work, Yalom has authored Existential Psychotherapy, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, and a number of psychological novels (e.g., When Neitzche Wept, Love's Executioner, etc.

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