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Volume 21
International Journal of Emergency Mental
Health and Human Resilience
ISSN: 1522-4821
Mental Health 2019
March 07-08, 2019
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Robin Andrew Haig, Int J Emerg Ment Health 2019, Volume 21
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C1-025
The therapeutic uses of humor
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will be revisiting selectedchapters frommy text, "TheAnatomyofHumor, Biopsychosocial andTherapeuticPerspectives”,
which Charles Thomas published in 1988, focusing on the origins of humor (and laughter), the constructive and
destructive uses of humor in psychotherapy, its relationship to mood, physiology and health. I will be reviewing progress
in humor research and health over recent years. Since brevity is the soul of wit and tediousness the outward flourishes, I
will be brief. We will be acknowledging the important contributions to society by comedians recently departed, Sir Ken
Dodd and Robin Williams.
Biography
Robin Andrew Haig, FRANZCP MRCPsych who is a Clinical Psychiatrist currently in private practice in Sydney, having held senior roles over many years in
public and private clinics, teaching hospitals in London (KCH), Tasmania and Sydney, actively involved in Psychiatrist training and CPD.
ramhaig.ramhaig@gmail.comRobin Andrew Haig
St John of God Hospital, Australia