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Buckman Elcha Shain (Ed.)

 

 

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THE HANDBOOK OF HUMOR: Clinical Applications in Psychotherapy

Edition

Orig. Ed 1994

Description

Pages

206

This text is designed to reach academic and clinical communities involved in delivering or understanding mental health care. It provides a complete work on psychotherapeutic humor from the clinician's approach, humor with children, adolescents, varying groups, humor as a diagnostic tool, the difference between humor and paradox, and what humor is and is not. Features: * The first book in this field to take a comprehensive, developmental multimodal approach to applied theory and practice of humor as a thoughtfully spontaneous psychotherapeutic intervention * The only reference material about humor that explores intervention failures as well as successes and cites principles for guiding therapists in their use of humor * A text that gives a comprehensive review of humor theory from 1800-1993

Krieger Book Number

223693

ISBN #

0-89464-369-X

Reviews

Cloth/Paper

C

U.S. Dollars

$29.5

"This book is the most recent, most up-to-date, and most balanced book on humor yet available. I say balanced because it does not discuss humor in dry, droll terms, but rather integrates the serious with the funny facts of counseling...." -- Humor, Hypnosis and Health Quarterly

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