Healing with Humor. Laughter is healthy! What could be more fitting than incorporating humor into therapy? Renowned representatives from various fields - behavioral therapy and depth psychology, hypnotherapy and provocative style, art therapy and neurobiology - reveal in this book the extensive potential of humor as a healing tool. It explores how humor and laughter can be trained, what humor as a character trait means, how irony works, whether mental illnesses affect humor, and the differences in humor between children and the elderly. This "Humor Cookbook" examines the topic from various perspectives and provides the reader with numerous ideas for practical work with patients: How can therapeutic insights be conveyed with humor? Can a humorous approach help patients deal with their problems?.