Pasquali E A
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530.
J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv. 1990 Mar;28(3):31-5. doi: 10.3928/0279-3695-19900301-10.
Use of humor may indicate a person's mental health status, may reveal psychosocial problems and conflicts, and may indicate ability to cope with those problems and conflicts. Humor may also be one way of helping people more effectively cope with the stresses and strains of living in a complex world. Humor may be incorporated into psychotherapy, either as part of the therapist-client relationship or as a humor program. The humor used by the author in a humor program with chronically mentally ill clients is the laughing with, not the laughing at, type. It deals with problems of life and of people living life. The stories, jokes, comic strips, and songs selected show how people perceive and laugh at the ironies and absurdities in their predicaments and are able to cope with, and frequently transcend, them.
使用幽默可能表明一个人的心理健康状况，可能揭示心理社会问题和冲突，还可能表明应对这些问题和冲突的能力。幽默也可能是帮助人们更有效地应对生活在复杂世界中的压力和紧张的一种方式。幽默可以融入心理治疗中，要么作为治疗师与患者关系的一部分，要么作为一个幽默项目。作者在一个针对慢性精神病患者的幽默项目中使用的幽默是“与……一起笑”，而不是“嘲笑”的那种。它涉及生活问题以及生活着的人们的问题。所选用的故事、笑话、连环漫画和歌曲展示了人们如何看待并嘲笑自身困境中的讽刺和荒谬之处，以及能够应对并常常超越这些。
