A new review demonstrates the overall positive impact of humor therapy on depression and anxiety, which may help inform future research, policy, and practice. Humor, a nonpharmacologic intervention ...

An analysis of published studies suggests that humor therapy may lessen symptoms of depression and anxiety. Most participants thought humor therapy lessened their depression and anxiety, but some ...

People's experiences of humor vary, and humor serves many different functions in our daily lives. Sometime we use humor as a coping mechanism when things are not going well, and other times we enjoy a ...

“The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.” That sentiment, offered by no less an authority on humor than Mark Twain, is just one of many that link the ...

I learned to be funny because my mother was chronically depressed. From infancy onward — through a mixture of survival instinct, emotional alchemy, and a craving for approval — my role was to ...