Humor is a funny thing: Dimensions of the therapeutic relationship

Humor and Psyche: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 131-158

  Meissner, W W ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203779606-13     Document Type: Chapter

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