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… Enhances therapeutic alliance and increases trust between therapists and clients.
… Helps clients feel good about themselves.
… Helps clients gain perspective.
… Humor can help clients' thought processes by helping them to get unstuck.
… Helps clients cope with difficult situations, such as death and illness.
… Helps clients accept themselves. ("The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends." - Bob Hope)
… Activates the chemistry of the will to live and increases our capacity to fight disease.
… Humor can be used diagnostically. Goethe said: "People show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable." The kind of humor people use often shows the kind of people they are.
… Laughter is cathartic.
Concerns with humor:
… It can be hurtful, demeaning, sexist and racist and a way to dominate.
… It can be self-depreciating in unhealthy ways.
… Laughing with others is an icebreaker, however, laughing at others is an icemaker.
The 100 theories of humor can be sorted into three groups.
1. Biological, psychoanalytic or relief theories that consider the function of humor. They explain why we laugh and what survival value humor has.
2. Incongruity, surprise and configuration theories consider the stimuli for humor. They explain what makes funny things funny.
3. Cognitive theories consider the response to humor. They explain how and why we find things funny.
Types of Humor (partial list):
Black humor, circular, connotation, context deviation, defeated expectation, denial, escape, exaggeration, expand metaphor, false reason, free association, hypocrisy, impossible, insight, irony, juxtaposition, logical fallacy, mimicry, name-calling, nonsense, paradox, personification, practical joke, projection, pun, reduce to absurd, reversal, riddle, ridicule, satire, self-deprecation, self-referential, simile, stereotype, trick and many others.
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Sincerely,
OZ
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