What Made Freud Laugh
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Adult Laughter
Affect Arousal
Affect Regulation
Affectionate Teasing
Appeasement System
arousal
attachment
Attachment Behavior
Attachment Perspective
Attachment Style
Attachment System
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Baby Laughter
behaviors
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Disorganized Attachment
Duchenne Laughter
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Face To Face
Held
Hostile Teasing
Human Laughter
Infant Laughter
Interpersonal Neurobiology
laughter
Laughter Yoga
negative
Negative Arousal
non-duchenne
non-Duchenne Laughter
perspective
positive
Positive Arousal
style
system
Vice Versa
Wariness System
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415998338
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. Nelson resolves these paradoxes and complexities by linking attachment-based laughter with the exploratory/play system in infancy, and the social/affiliative system, the conflict/appeasement, sexual/mating, and fear/wariness systems of later life. An attachment perspective also helps to explain the source of different patterns and uses of laughter, suggests how and why they may vary according to attachment style, and explain the multiple meanings of laughter in the context of the therapeutic relationship. As she discovers, attachment has much to teach us about laughter, and laughter has much to teach us about attachment. This lively book sheds light on the ways in which we connect, grow, and transform and how, through shared humor, play, and delight, we have fun doing so.
Judith Kay Nelson, MSW, PhD, is the former Dean and currently on the faculty of The Sanville Institute for Clinical Social Work and Psychotherapy, California. She also teaches attachment and neurobiology in the clinical social work doctoral program at Smith College, Massachusetts. She has taught and presented throughout the United States and Europe on topics related to crying, grief, laughter and attachment.
