What is it about?

Humor and reframing share many common aspects: a position of observation, producing surprise, and forced reinterpretation of the initial data.

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Why is it important?

The article shows how humor can be used to reframe clinical situations and thereby be linked to reframing, which is one of the most commonly used therapeutic tools in various forms of psychotherapy.

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Offers an original theoretical point of view about humor and psychotherapy.

Dr Christophe Panichelli
Private practice, Sprimont, Belgium

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This page is a summary of: L'humour en psychothérapie, Thérapie Familiale, January 2006, CAIRN,
DOI: 10.3917/tf.064.0399.
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