Humor Health Project

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

When humor becomes avoidance: using jokes to deflect rather than process

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

Confucius reportedly said, “A man has to be serious to be respected.” Two and a half millennia later, researchers at