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  • Title: Gunfire, humour and psychotherapy.
    Author: Middleton W.
    Journal: Australas Psychiatry; 2007 Apr; 15(2):148-55. PubMed ID: 17464660.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To reflect on the humour associated with one's cultural heritage, the mechanisms of humour in the cultures of many, and its role in the processes of psychotherapy. CONCLUSIONS: The practice of psychotherapy is enhanced by the therapist who maintains a sense of humour, who appreciates its development in his/her patients, and who respectfully uses it to assist in building the therapeutic alliance. Therapy is not so serious that laughter need be excluded from it.
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