Handbook of Humor and Psychotherapy
Advances in the Clinical Use of Humor

Preface

Introduction

Therapeutic Effects of Laughter

• Jeffrey H. Goldstein

Humor in Psychotherapy: A Shift to a New Perspective

• Barbara Killinger

The Humor Decision

• Harold Greenwald

Natural High Theory and Practice:  The Humorist's Game of Games

• Walter E. O'Connell

Humor in Provocative Therapy

• Frank Farrelly and Michael Lynch

Therapeutic Strategies with the Comic Child

• Rhoda Lee Fisher and Seymour Fisher

Humor in Pragmatic Psychotherapy

• Richard Driscoll

Humor and Laughter in Behavior Therapy

• W. Larry Ventis

Humor in Group Therapy

• Sidney Bloch

Humor in Integrative Short-Term Psychotherapy (ISTP)

• Waleed A. Salameh

Humor in Strategic Family Therapy

• Cloe Madanes

The Use of Rational Humorous Songs in Psychotherapy

• Albert Ellis

The "Conspirative Method": Applying Humoristic Inversion in Psychotherapy

• Michael Titze

"That'll Be Five Cents, Please!": Perceptions of Psychotherapy in Jokes and Humor

• Edward Dunkelblau

Conclusion

Appendix: Humor and Psychotherapy - A Comprehensive Clinical Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index