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• The Beginner's Guide to Humor and Healing (Beginner's (Audio))

  Bernie S. Siegel

  
  
   

• Laughter, the Best Medicine: The Healing Power of Happiness, Humour and Laughter

  Robert Holden

  
  
   

• The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach

  Rod A. Martin

  
  
   

• The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations and All That

  Allen Klein

  
  
   

• Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)

  S Freud

  
  
   

• To Wit: Skin and Bones of Comedy

  Penelope Gilliatt

  
  
   

• When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Lighten Up!: How to Be Happy in Spite of It All

  Terry Braverman

  
  
   

• Jokes: Their Purpose and Meaning

  Herbert S. Strean

  
  
   

• Laughter: A Scientific Investigation

  Robert R Provine

  
  Is it really the best medicine? Neurobiologist Robert R. Provine discovered that no scientist had ever looked into the weird, uncontrollable, and very human phenomenon of laughter, so he started off on his own. Laughter: A Scientific Investigation is his warm and--of course--funny report on how and why we giggle and snort with such regularity. Basing his views on field research conducted in a broad array of social situations (laughter being notoriously difficult to evoke in the laboratory), he posits that we use it as a universal, preverbal means of communication. Though animal research is controversial, it suggests that apes establish and maintain relationships using laugh-like behaviour, so it could be the missing link between animal communication and true language. He also explores instances in which we seem to laugh our way into and out of social situations, and includes a list of tips for keeping the laughs flowing. The irony of the scientific community not taking laughter seriously isn't lost on Provine, and he takes every opportunity to remind his fellows that even the seemingly most trivial matters can hide the most profound truths. If that isn't funny, what is? --Rob Lightner
  
   

• Humor and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications

  
  
   

• Cracking Jokes: Studies of Sick Humor Cycles and Stereotypes

  Alan Dundes

  
  
   

• Your Seventh Sense: How to Think Like a Comedian

  Karyn Ruth White, Jay Arthur

  
  
   

• The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (Penguin Classics)

  Sigmund Freud

  
  
   

• The Psychology of Humor: A Reference Guide and Annotated Bibliography

  Jon E. Roeckelein

  
  
   

• Humor and Psyche: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

  
  
   

• Making Humor Work: Take Your Job Seriously and Yourself Lightly (Fifty-Minute)

  Terry L. Paulson

  
  
   

• I'd Rather Laugh: How to Be Happy Even When Life Has Other Plans for You (Thorndike Press Large Print Inspirational Series)

  Linda Richman

  
  
   

• A Time to Laugh: The Religion of Humor

  Donald Capps

  
  
   

• An Anatomy of Humor

  Arthur Asa Berger

  
  
   

• Comedy : the Mastery of Discourse: Theory/Culture

  Susan Purdie