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Therapeutic Humor

When it comes to squeezing the most enjoyment out of life, it's hard to beat humor as a tool to do it, and there are a number of resources online dealing with so-called therapeutic humor. Because if you can laugh at your stress, you can take a lot of the edge off it.

Articles:

Take Two Aspirin, Watch "Animal House" and Call Me in The Morning
Laughter is the best medicine. What once was clichéd is now documented thanks to research recently done at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

The Significance Of A Laugh
A new study shows a laugh signifies more than humor and ridicule, researchers say they have found the first physiological evidence of the role of laughter during psychotherapy.

Laughter helps patients communicate emotion in therapy sessions
Laughter may be the best medicine, but the role laughter plays in psychotherapy has been disputed since the days of Freud. Some early therapists believed that laughter could have a harmful effect, while more recent thinking has held that, if used non-judgmentally, laughter can help support the therapeutic partnership. But none of those theories have been based on objective data.

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Books:

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The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor - Resources and other information for anyone interested in the health applications of humor. Their suggested readings section alone is fantastic.

DiscoverHappinessIs.com - Powerful Tools for Positive Living! HAPPINESS IS...provides Laughter,Humor & Stress Reduction Programs & speeches, programs to enhance a more joyful corporate culture and improve employee morale and upbeat staff training and personal and business Success Coaching worldwide...

Laughter, Relaxation, Coping with Addictions - A great resource covering laughter, relaxation, yoga, addiction and other areas from the Czech Republic (in English and Czech).

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