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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