Humor Health Project

Former NBA star Carlos Boozer once rented his Los Angeles mansion to Prince for $95,000 a month. This sounds like

The fine line between humor and harm: navigating humor in sensitive mental health contexts

This book has traced a long arc. It began with the science of laughter—the dopamine, the endorphins, the vagal activation,

There is a moment in therapy that nearly every clinician recognizes. The client has been edging toward something painful—a memory,

This book has spent many chapters making the case that humor is good for you. And the evidence is real:

You probably know, in a general way, that you enjoy humor. You know you like to laugh. You may have

The relationship between humor and mental health sits at the intersection of several fields that rarely talk to one another.

Throughout this book, we have examined the science of humor and mental health—the studies, the theories, the clinical frameworks. We

There is an old saying, sometimes attributed to anonymous wisdom and sometimes to the collective inheritance of Black American culture:

In 2018, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby stood on stage in a Netflix special called Nanette and did something comedians are