Some Dynamics of Laughter During Family Therapy

Zuk, Gerald H.; Boszormenyi-Nagy, Ivan; Heiman, Elliot

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1963.00302.x

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“…The use of humor in psychotherapy with patients with chronic and serious mental illness has been widely described. Advocates of its use have come from all major psychotherapy orientations, including existentialists [ 23 , 24 ], dynamic therapists [ 25 ], behaviorists [ 26 ] cognitivists [ 19 ], paradox-oriented therapists [ 27 , 28 ], family therapists [ 29 ], Gestalt therapists [ 30 ], provocative therapists [ 31 ] and others, and it has even been presented as an important aspect of supportive therapy for caregivers of people suffering from SMI [ 32 ]. The techniques used in the many approaches vary widely and have been described elsewhere [ 33 ].…”

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The Use of Humor in Serious Mental Illness: A Review

Gelkopf

2011

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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There is now a relatively good understanding of the broad range of direct and indirect effects of humor and laughter on perceptions, attitudes, judgments and emotions, which can potentially benefit the physical and psychological state. This article presents a review and discussion of the use of humor and laughter in treating people with serious mental illness, distinguishing between clinical papers on individual and group psychotherapy, and empirical research reports describing humor and laughter interventions. In spite of the exponential growth of the field over the last 30 years, I conclude that empirical studies are still lacking, the studies that do exist have major methodological shortcomings, and the field is in dire need of further investigation.

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The Use of Humor in Serious Mental Illness: A Review

Gelkopf

2011

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“…The use of humor has been described as an important aspect of psychotherapy across a wide range of orientations, including cognitive-behavioral (46) and family therapy (47). However, the techniques used to implement humor in the process of therapy vary widely (48,49).…”

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Humor in Psychiatry: Lessons From Neuroscience, Psychopathology, and Treatment Research

2021

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Humor is a ubiquitous human characteristic that is socially motivated at its core and has a broad range of significant positive effects on emotional well-being and interpersonal relationships. Simultaneously, however, impairments in humor abilities have often been described in close association with the occurrence and course of neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, social anxiety, or depression. In the past decade, research in the neuroimaging and psychiatric domain has substantially progressed to (i) characterize impaired humor as an element of psychopathology, and (ii) shed light on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the role of humor in neuropsychiatric diseases. However, (iii) targeted interventions using concepts of positive psychology have revealed first evidence that a systematic training and/or a potential reactivation of humor-related skills can improve rehabilitative outcome in neuropsychiatric patient groups. Here, we sought to integrate evidence from neuroscience, as well as from psychopathology and treatment research to shed more light on the role of humor in psychiatry. Based on these considerations, we provide directions for future research and application in mental health services, focusing on the question of how our scientific understanding of humor can provide the basis for psychological interventions that foster positive attitudes and well-being.

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“…Coser (1960) pointed out the importance of laughter in setting up double binds. Zuk, Roszormeny-Nagy, and Heiman (1963) were able to make a reliable count of the number of laughs in a family-therapy situation and report a significant inverse relationship between the number of times the parents and their schizophrenic daughter laughed. Zuk (1964) follows up this study and attempts systematically to relate laughter to the double bind.…”

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“…Zuk (1964) follows up this study and attempts systematically to relate laughter to the double bind. Zuk et al (1963) and Haley's studies are important not because they buttress the double-bind concept but because they represent useful ways of studying interactions in situations in which double binds may be present. Schuham (1967) reports on three doctoral dissertations (Ciotola, 1961;Potash, 1965;Loeff, 1966) that involved the double bind.…”

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The Psychopathology of Language and Cognition

Rieber

Vetter

1995

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Originally published by Plenum press, New York in 1995Softcovcr reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1995 10 987654321 All rights reservedNo part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher Preface A quarter century ago, one of the authors undertook the task of surveying research and theory in an area that, for lack of a more precise designation, was called "language behavior and psychopathology." The book published under the same title addressed those precincts of language behavior wherein the interests of the psychologist, psychiatrist, linguist, and speech pathologist showed some tendencies toward convergence. The principal focus was on aspects of language and paralanguage-variously, and on the whole, indifferently referred to as "deviation," "anomalies," "aberrations," or "disturbances" -that occur with sufficient frequency in relation to certain categories of personality disorders that they have long occupied a prominent (and coritroversial) place in the psychodiagnostic process.Language Behavior and Psychopathology (1969) made clear to the reader that it did not deal with such primary patterns of language disturbance as aphasia and stuttering. This was not to deny the relevance of psychopathological considerations in such language disorders. The importance of emotional conflict in the pathogenesis of stuttering had been amply documented, and there was abundant clinical evidence that aphasic patients might react adversely to their lowered or altered capacities'in symbolizing and communicating, even to the extent of exhibiting what Kurt Goldstein called a "catastrophic reaction." Regardless, however, of any psychopathological factors that may be present in aphasia or stuttering, both are essentially linguistic disorders. Their principal symptoms are manifested in vocal speech, and their treatment requires some or a great deal of speech therapy and retraining.On the other hand, as the book sought to emphasize, the linguistic and v vi Preface paralinguistic phenomena that occur as concomitants to conventional psychiatric syndromes might be characterized more accurately as language symptoms than as language disturbances. Clinical descriptions of personality disorders prominently feature descriptions of language and paralinguistic behavior. Anyone questioning this statement need only try to imagine the difficulties presented by the psychodiagnostic assessment of a patient bereft of speech. Much, if not most, diagnostic test behavior is language behavior, and among the chief criteria for gauging therapeutic progress is change in language behavior.If there was a common orientation toward language and communication behavior in the psychopathological context, it expressed itself in two objectives. The first was an attempt to arrive at a precise description of the way or ways that individuals diagnosed as belonging to a particular nos...

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Some Dynamics of Laughter During Family Therapy

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

The Use of Humor in Serious Mental Illness: A Review

The Use of Humor in Serious Mental Illness: A Review

Humor in Psychiatry: Lessons From Neuroscience, Psychopathology, and Treatment Research

The Psychopathology of Language and Cognition

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