The delicate balance between the use and abuse of humor in the psychoanalytic setting

Humor and Psyche: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 109-130

  Baker, Ronald ^a  

^a BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203779606-12     Document Type: Chapter

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