Learning about humour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6426596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanne Vosmer (0000-0003-0847-3980, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-114 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Group Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0533-3164 • E-ISSN: 1461-717X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/05333164221150211 |
| OpenAlex | W4320916708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 53 |
In groups, we encounter the entire spectrum of humour from benign jokes to hostile sarcasm. Since humour has been neglected by group analysts, this article expands the limited literature in group analysis on humour. Several theories of humour are introduced. I contend that group analysis should research humour in order to develop a group analytic theory of humour. Jokes and clinical examples are interwoven to illustrate what conductors must consider before employing humour. Reactions to and use of witticism are described. Beneficial humour techniques (therapeutic paradox, paradoxical intentions) and gallows humour are outlined. Gallows humour has therapeutic benefits for depressed, traumatized, suicidal and dying people. Vignettes are provided that demonstrate how parallel process offers insight into humour. I suggest that supervision and workshops are vital if group analysts wish to use humour. Some techniques are described, which could be taught
Aesthetics · Aqueous humour · Art · Irony · Literature · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Sarcasm · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology
Talking difference
Taking Humour Seriously
Laughter and Ridicule
Psychoanalytic dialogues
The uses of humor in life, neurosis and in psychotherapy
Theoretical Notes on Humor
Integrating humor into psychotherapy
Laughter and Humour—Does it Have a Place in Group Analysis
Special Section
Special Section
You Must Be Joking
Developing a rhetorical analysis of racist humour
Dialogic ethics and the virtue of humor
Humour and Hatred
How native and non-native English speakers adapt to humor in intercultural interaction
Training the sense of humor with the 7 Humor Habits Program and satisfaction with life
Incongruity in humor
A theory of humor
Wit and humor in discourse processing
Ethnic Jokes
Getting A Laugh
Cognitive similarity and group laughter
Humor in Therapy
Rivista Di Psicoanalisi
Adaptive mental mechanisms
Beyond a Joke
Risky business
Irony as relevant inappropriateness
Racism without Hatred? Racist Humor and the Myth of 'Colorblindness
The Rhetoric of Racist Humour, Us, Uk and Global Race Joking
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |