What made Freud laugh: an attachment perspective on laughter
In her characteristically engaging style, Nelson explores a topic that has fascinated and frustrated scholars for centuries. Initially drawn to the meaning of laughter through her decades of work studying crying from an attachment perspective, Nelson argues that laughter is based in the attachment system, which explains much about its confusing and apparently contradictory qualities. Laughter may represent connection or detachment. It can invite closeness, or be a barrier to it. Some laughter h…
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- Full title :What made Freud laugh : an attachment perspective on laughter / [Judith Kay Nelson].
Summary
In her characteristically engaging style, Nelson explores a topic that has fascinated and frustrated scholars for centuries. Initially drawn to the meaning of laughter through her decades of work studying crying from an attachment perspective, Nelson argues that laughter is based in the attachment system, which explains much about its confusing and apparently contradictory qualities. Laughter may represent connection or detachment. It can invite closeness, or be a barrier to it. Some laughter helps us cope with stress, other laughter may serve as a defense and represent resistance to growth and change.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 221 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415998321, 0415998328, 9780415998338, 0415998336
- oclc:ocn777386234
- LC Classification:BF575.L3
- Dewey Decimal:152.4/3
Table of Contents
Laughter as attachment behavior : foundations of a theory -- Types of laughter -- Theories about laughter from an attachment perspective -- Laughter research and attachment -- The development of laughter in infancy -- Affect attunement and misattunement and the formation of internal working models of attachment -- The development of laughter in childhood -- Childhood laughter in a clinical context -- Adult laughter in everyday life -- Laughter in the clinical hour -- Divine comedy : transformation and transcendence in laughter, humor, comedy, and wit.
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