The psychology of laughter was used long before the word “psychology” itself became known, although the soul was then given more attention and importance than material values.
In the ancient East there lived the most cheerful man in the world - Hotei. The fat, good-natured monk wandered around the cities, where instead of preaching, he laughed infectiously. He came to the market square and started laughing. At first, the people gathered asked: “What’s wrong with you? Why are you laughing? But Hotei laughed so contagiously that those around him also could not help laughing. They asked him about the meaning of life, about truth and enlightenment, to which he continued to laugh. After this laughter therapy, people noticed that they felt better: their heads became clearer, bad thoughts disappeared, and heaviness lifted from their souls. People were eagerly awaiting Hotei's next arrival!
Nowadays, there are entire centers for the psychology of laughter. Why are they needed? As it turns out, one of the most difficult tasks of a laughter therapist is to help a person laugh! Just like that, for no apparent reason. Knowing the benefits of laughter, people in Europe, America, Japan and other countries pay a lot of money to take a course where they are taught to laugh...
What are the benefits of laughter?
Every day a person absorbs a lot of information - the Internet, television, radio, mobile communications, add to this social tension, unpleasant experiences and stress. However, he gives no or very little information. Laughter helps to create an outgoing flow - to let it out:
- bad,
- fatigue,
- insult and
- negative thoughts and
- unspoken words
- bodily stiffness,
- embarrassment and shame,
- worries about the future.
The psychology of laughter knows a simple way for this. It's better to have two people do it. One encourages the other to just start laughing. In the beginning, a person will demand something (a joke, an object, a situation) that seems funny, but over time he will simply laugh.
How to learn to laugh?
The goal of this psychology method is to restore a person’s ability to laugh without reason. Only two steps are used:
1. “Start laughing.”
2. “Keep laughing.”
Whatever the person says at the first step, no matter what arguments you give against, no matter what you ask about, repeat to him the same phrase “start laughing.” When he finally does it - it doesn’t matter how: quietly, loudly, not very sincerely - help him with the phrase “Keep laughing.” Until a person truly feels the pleasure of laughing without any reason, without feeling awkward and without needing a push. In the process, along with laughter, negativity will come out: a person may yawn, cry, feel some kind of pain, discomfort, release unpleasant memories - continue laughing until you feel lightness and clarity. As a good result of the process, a person often produces a phrase as if it had dawned on him. Such statements begin, for example, with the words “Wow! ...”, “How did it not dawn on me earlier that ...”, “I understood!”, “What a fool I was!” 🙂
I really think laughing is what I love most. It cures many diseases. Perhaps this is the most important thing in a person. Audrey Hepburn.
Humor and laughter are things Not serious, and this is a serious article about humor :)
When and why are laughter and humor needed, how do they help you become happier? What is humor, how does it arise and what does it give us?..
Humor and laughter are very effective without side effects, stress relievers, one of the main components of happiness, harmony and success.
Researchers have proven that a comedy concert, for example, can significantly reduce anxiety and depression. Researchers Martin and Lefcourt developed the Coping Humor Scale, which measures the role of humor in coping with stressful situations and found that humor mitigates stress, making it less threatening and harmful. Test takers who scored on it large number points, the heavy film was less upsetting. It was also possible to show that in such people the blood pressure in response to immersion of the hand in cold water rose slightly. Other researchers have studied the influence of life events on positive and negative emotions. They found that people who laughed a lot did not experience an increase in negative emotions, but in men, stress contributed to an increase in positive emotions.
The serious scientific definition of humor is: it is a positive state of mind that occurs when someone says or does something ridiculous, unexpected or absurd, or the events we observe in a similar way, and laughter occurs. Finding something funny gives a special kind of joy, which is why this ability is important for happiness. On average, humor is observed approximately 18 times a day.
Many studies have found a clear relationship between humor and happiness: happy people laugh more and have a better sense of humor.
What does humor give us? Its advantages are tested and proven.
1. Extroverts and sanguine people laugh more than others because reasons for humor most often appear in social interaction, although not necessarily. You can laugh while reading a joke, but it’s another matter that laughing at it together, in company, is much more interesting.
Humor promotes close relationships, establishing and strengthening social contacts. Shared laughter unites people and relieves tension between them, since thanks to it positive emotions are jointly experienced and negative ones are discharged. Contradictions are eliminated by being presented in a comic light, and therefore turn out to be a source not of conflict, but of amusement.
Humor increases the attractiveness of each other in the eyes of young people. The researchers showed that the self-deprecating humor of the proposed speaker made him more attractive in the eyes of the audience. Scientists have discovered the reason for this: such humor "illuminates the dark side" of attractive individuals who otherwise seem devoid of flaws. The comic allows us to experience strong emotions together, and positive ones at that, and this is powerful way strengthening social connections. Therefore, if one person makes everyone happy, the cohesion of the entire group will increase. The only “but” is that comedy must be appropriate!
Thanks to humor (for example, telling jokes), people begin to feel more sympathy for the interlocutor who behaves this way, and both parties begin to sympathize with each other. Therefore, it is not surprising that one of the rules of friendship is the desirability of jokes. However, when it comes to marriage, the situation is different: if husbands resort to humor when resolving stressful situations in the lives of their wives, it is more difficult to save the marriage, since this can be regarded as avoiding the problem, not wanting to notice it and do anything about it solutions.
2. When the monkey laughed when he saw himself in the mirror, a man was born. Stanislav Jerzy Lec.
Humor and laughter in the full sense, as we understand it, are noted only among people. However, so are tears. What do laughter and tears have in common - a little later. In cats and dogs, for example, playfulness can be observed as they play, developing and honing their agility skills and strength. But of course it’s hard to call it humor. Apes that interact with humans and learn sign language exhibit something akin to humor. Smiles are silent expressions, showing teeth, grimaces, and laughter is a relaxed expression, an open mouth, so-called playfulness. The latter is accompanied by frequent, intermittent breathing, which later apparently evolved into human laughter.
As for a person, when does he begin to laugh and understand humor?.. Children begin to smile very early, in the first weeks of life: when they see the face or hear the mother’s voice, and also when they are tickled. By the fourth month, they are already laughing in response to tickling or any tactile stimulation, or playing peek-a-boo (hide and seek). By the end of the first year of life, they react this way in response to incongruous events, such as their mother drinking from the baby's glassware. Apparently, such inconsistencies cause laughter even at such an early age, but only when the situation is safe and playful signals are given.
We started from afar, beat around the bush and got to the point. What else is the use of humor, besides establishing social contacts - it makes the situation safe. Laughter and humor are a sign of the absence of danger, recognition of one’s strength, awareness of the ability to cope with the current situation.
We laugh when events and situations are not threatening, and it is also true that when we laugh, the situation ceases to be so dangerous and insoluble.
3. "I believe that the power of laughter and tears can be an antidote to hatred and fear..." Charlie Chaplin.
Laughter through tears, tears through laughter. You can learn to smile to order, you can even laugh when “necessary”. Real laughter differs from artificial laughter in that a person laughs with his whole body, his stiffness disappears, all organs participate in laughter, his whole body shakes. If you notice, the same thing occurs during tears, crying that cannot be controlled. This leads to another important advantage of laughter - it relieves accumulated tension in the body. When a person faces danger, he prepares, relatively speaking, for a fight. But sometimes people cross the line of reason; they live in a state of constant stress or readiness to fight. Since the threatening situation for the most part exists in the head and there is no release of tension in the form of the struggle itself, its main part - the “fight”, then such tension and constant readiness are exhausting, exhausting physically and mentally. Chronic stress, as is known, does not provide the opportunity to restore the body's strength and emotional balance.
Stress appears in the head - feeling or predicting danger, a person begins to scroll through various threatening situations and outcomes of events in his head, the body immediately responds to thoughts and tenses up. It hardens, loses flexibility, and eventually freezes in this position, in turn not allowing the person to relax, involuntarily returning him to circles of disturbing thoughts. Laughter and tears are like rain showers on a sweltering summer afternoon - they break the shell of stiffness, relieve tension, restore freedom, give you the opportunity to take a breath, “refresh yourself, renew yourself.”
After all of the above, the expression “laugh for your health” takes on the most literal meaning. Although natural laughter does not take this factor into account, otherwise the benefits of laughter come to naught.
Real laughter is laughter with the whole body, when the whole body shakes, even to the point of cramps in the stomach. By the way, such laughter burns a large number of calories, and is a natural and therefore easy exercise. It can strengthen muscles stomach, back and legs. A minute of laughter, or rather laughter, is equivalent to fifteen minutes of riding a bicycle.
4. At all times, jesters, comedians, clowns, clowns and other comedians were held in high esteem. They had and still have an amazing talent for showing controversial, painful moments of life with a laugh. And, as you know, By admitting to yourself your weaknesses, a person becomes stronger.
Previously, clownish humor was associated with differences in status and other sources of tension in society and helped ease tension. Now jokes also often include ethnic, gender, “indecent” themes, and even hair color.
Comic battles, when interlocutors exchange jokes, do not allow the conflict to go deeper, expand in breadth and at the same time relieve tension, “let off steam” in a harmless way for everyone.
5. By the way, you can learn to live with laughter; there are enough examples of this in history. Many comedians, for example, Charlie Chaplin, Jim Carrey and others, did not experience the happiest childhood and youth, and laughter for them became a panacea for many ills. This is a healthy reaction of the psyche, when the ability to laugh and make people laugh becomes a kind of compensation and neutralization of the experienced tension.
And lastly, the healthiest, most harmless, natural and even “selfish” laughter is laughing at yourself.
People who make fun of others cannot admit to themselves that they themselves possess these qualities, so they begin to “fight” them in those around them. 
In fact, whenever a person sees something funny in some situation, it is somehow connected with the person himself, even if indirectly related to him.
For example, a “bearded” joke, or, more precisely, a funny situation (see figure on the right).
Why does it make you smile - because almost every person at least once in his life was in a situation where he wanted to remember a specific name and for some time could not do this, and as a result various funny improvisations, “horse names” arose.
Learning to laugh, including at yourself - only in a kind way, of course, with love and understanding - is another step towards your happiness.
Seriously about humor. Psychology of laughter and jokes.
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According to Anokhin's biological theory of emotions, emotions arose at a certain stage of evolution as a means of assessing a need and the degree of its satisfaction. As a rule, any unsatisfied need is accompanied by negative emotions, while the satisfaction of this need causes positive emotions, one of the manifestations of which is laughter. According to another theory, laughter is a person's reaction to something unexpected - for example, to the denouement of a joke or to being touched by tickling parts of the body that are usually not touched. The mechanism of laughter is a “joint product” of our intellect and emotions. The intellect perceives some funny paradox, absurdity, contradiction, and the process of laughter itself is a release of accumulated emotional tension.
Obviously, it has not yet been possible to fully unravel the physiology of laughter. It is known that during laughter, many life-giving processes occur in the body: the level of production of “stress hormones” - cortisol and adrenaline - decreases, and the hormone endorphin is released into the blood. It is endorphin, a kind of “drug” produced by the body, that dulls pain, causes a feeling of satisfaction, and allows you to look at troubles from a new perspective. Prolonged laughter (for example, when watching a comedy movie or a humorous program) first increases and then decreases heart rate and lowers blood pressure. When laughing, a person takes a deep breath and then exhales briefly, so intensely that the lungs are completely emptied of air. Gas exchange accelerates 3-4 times, which is a natural breathing exercise.
The strength of laughter varies from a slight grin to a Homeric laugh. The difference in reaction depends on many indicators: the amount of neurotransmitters - biologically active substances that affect the corresponding structures in the brain that are responsible for “triggering” laughter; the emotional and physical state in which the person was before they tried to make him laugh; finally, from the individual perception of a specific absurdity (one who has had similar situations in his life will laugh harder at jokes about his mother-in-law). To different people the same joke can seem both funny and outrageous.
Sometimes we laugh so hard we can't stop. Why is this happening? This is where the “mirror reflection” mechanism comes into play; we look at something or hear something that seems very funny to us. We begin to laugh and look again at or remember what gave our laughter the impetus. Up to a certain point, this circular reinforcement strengthens laughter, and as internal tension decreases, laughter weakens and finally stops.
Optimism - against the flu
According to the US National Academy of Sciences, scientists led by Richard Davidson from the University of Wisconsin found that optimists produce more protective antibodies against. A group of 52 people aged from 57 to 6o years was selected for the experiment. They were subjected to comprehensive testing, including a method of studying brain activity, and the subjects were divided into two groups: “optimists” and “pessimists.” Both groups were then given the flu vaccine. Subjects' blood was then taken three times over the course of six months to determine how protective antibodies were formed after the vaccine was administered. It turned out that the increase in antibody levels in the group of “optimists” was much faster than that of the “pessimists.”
Laughter that heals
One of the most famous people One who healed himself with laughter was American psychotherapist Norman Cousins. Doctors said that with his diagnosis (collagenosis - a continuously progressive disease in which the connective tissue in all organs and tissues) medicine is powerless. Instead of “burying” himself and moaning about his fate, Cousins locked himself in his house and watched humorous programs from morning to evening. First, the paralyzed fingers began to move, the pain disappeared, and then Cousins learned to walk again and was completely cured. It was he who founded "gelotology" - the science of laughter.
Today, gelotology is a popular direction in psychotherapy, gaining more and more adherents in different countries peace. It has three main directions:
- Classic laughter therapy. A laughter therapist provides individual or group sessions in which people laugh. They are told jokes, funny stories, they listen to recorded laughter, and watch comedies.
- Medical clownery. Medical clowns perform performances for hospital patients, which benefits the patients.
- Yoga of laughter. It was developed by Indian doctors; they teach a person to laugh easily and naturally, naturally and often.
Laughter and positive emotions help fight allergic diseases, and such research was carried out by Japanese scientists led by Dr. Jaime Kimato. The experiment involved 26 people with allergies to house dust. Before the test, they were given an injection of an allergen that caused skin rashes. The size of these lesions was measured. The subjects were then divided into two groups, one being shown a classic comedy starring Charlie Chaplin, and the other being shown boring weather forecasts. After 87 minutes the results were summed up. After measuring skin rashes, the scientists found that patients who were made to laugh by the great comedian during this time had a noticeable reduction in allergic rashes, while this did not happen in the other group.
Who laughs how much?
A newborn baby cannot laugh or smile. But by the end of the first month, when the mother appears, a “revival complex” sets in: the baby smiles and wiggles his legs. The baby begins to laugh only at the end of the third month, and the most fun period begins at the age of 6, when the child can laugh heartily up to 300 times a day! Unfortunately, as people age, they laugh less and less. An adult smiles on average only 15 times a day.
Even depression, which affects at least 20% of the population, is treated with laughter developed countries. If its spread is not stopped, then, according to research from the World Health Organization, by 2020, mortality from suicide will be in second place among other causes of death (heart disease is first), ahead of cancer and all other diseases! Scientists from the Austrian Society for Related Diseases have proposed an original method of treating depression, used in addition to medicines. They released a CD containing laughter and encouraging messages from some of the country's most famous people: an Olympic ski champion, a singer, a governor and a famous football player. Psychotherapists give this 20-minute disc to their patients suffering from depression to listen to, and note good results. Patients are “infected” by someone else’s good mood, and their own condition improves.
Make humor your ally:
- Try to find something funny in any unpleasant situation. Imagine how a famous comedian could talk about what happened to you. Or imagine that the situation has already been resolved in a favorable way. How would you tell it to a group of friends, wanting to amuse them?
- If you have a choice between watching a comedy or an action movie, always choose the comedy.
- Fill your home with funny little things that will make you smile when you look at them. Let these be funny photographs from the family archive, some things that remind you of fun events. The more there are, the better. In difficult times, looking at them will give you the boost of positive energy you need.
- Even if you don't feel like laughing at all, force yourself to smile. Remember that even an artificial smile activates the part of the brain responsible for positive emotions, which means the situation will no longer seem hopeless!
In countries Western Europe For 20 years now, “therapeutic clowns” have been an integral part of the wellness programs of large hospitals. About 40 people work in this field. In Holland, almost every hospital is proud of its own medical clown. In Israel there is an official specialty "medical clown". In Russia, such programs are also starting to work.
The mechanism of the healing effect of laughter is not yet completely clear. According to some scientists, its role is to protect the body from stress. Thus, laughter protects the immune system from negative impacts, which leads to improved treatment results. Therefore, no matter what you are sick with, try to maintain a good mood and help your family with this if they are sick.
What are we going to laugh at?
One of the main functions of humor is to protect our psyche. It “turns on” at the stage of thinking about the situation. Without humor, one could go crazy (and this is not an exaggeration), talking about the betrayal of a loved one, family problems, illness, attempted robbery and many other stressful situations.
It is humor that helps us not to “burn out” after the shock we have experienced. And we can say without exaggeration that if a person is able to talk about his troubles with humor or at least with a smile (even if “forced”), then the situation is not hopeless, and there is light at the end of the tunnel! Smiling, the person seems to be inviting the interlocutor: “Confirm that what happened to me is not so bad!” And if the interlocutor smiles back, then the storyteller’s heart becomes even lighter.
Another function of laughter is to establish positive relationships with other people. An interesting study was conducted by scientists from Westfield College (USA, Massachusetts). During the study, it was found that for women, when choosing a prospective partner, the presence of a sense of humor was one of the determining indicators. The women were offered two photographs of young men with similar external characteristics. Each photograph was accompanied by an autobiographical story, one of which was peppered with jokes, and the second in an “official” style. The overwhelming number of women expressed a desire to meet the “joker.”
But the researchers didn't stop there. Eric Bressler of Westfield State College in Massachusetts and his colleague Sigal Balshine of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, also found that for men, a woman's ability to joke is not a determining factor. It is much more important to them that their partner laughs at their jokes. Why is this happening? Women prefer witty men, since a sense of humor is an indicator of high intelligence and creativity, which means a healthy brain and good set genes. Therefore, it is possible to pass on these genes to your children. Those. women, as always, according to evolutionary theory, “choose the best.”
We can talk almost endlessly about the benefits of humor. And now you understand that laughter must be taken seriously. He will help you if you are sick, in a difficult situation or want yours to be happy. And therefore, no matter what happens, don’t lose your sense of humor!
He laughs well who laughs of his own free will. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. There are a number of diseases in which a person is either overcome by inappropriate and causeless laughter, or his facial features form a grimace resembling a smile. MedAboutMe talks about such diseases.
Mental disorders: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and others
Foolishness, laughter, and a tendency to make strange and inappropriate jokes may indicate the presence of hebephrenic schizophrenia. The disease begins to manifest itself during puberty. The patient is characterized by an elevated mood and mannerisms, he laughs and giggles picturesquely, and sometimes behaves obscenely. Bouts of fun can give way to aggression and angry excitement, and sometimes hallucinations appear. Patients are characterized by completely unmotivated actions, stupid pranks, and grimacing. Over time, behavior becomes completely meaningless and purposeless.
Bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive psychosis, can also manifest itself in bouts of euphoria, causeless laughter and joy, which are replaced by depression and depression. In a state of euphoria, the patient has fun for no reason, can laugh even at completely unfunny things, and show inappropriate self-confidence and delusions of grandeur.
Tourette's syndrome manifests itself in childhood. This disorder is characterized by uncontrolled movements, vocal tics, and behavioral disturbances. The patient may shout curses or obscenities (coprolalia), repeat what he hears (echolalia), grimace and laugh. Boys get sick twice as often as girls. The causes of the disease are not completely clear; Tourette syndrome is the subject of research by geneticists, psychiatrists and neurologists. The patient's intelligence, as a rule, does not suffer, but living with Tourette's syndrome is not easy. And it’s definitely not funny at all.
Angelman syndrome
Genetics is to blame for this disease: patients are missing part of chromosome 15. Angelman syndrome is also called Parsley syndrome or “happy doll”. A sick child looks like a cloudlessly happy baby - a joyful smile from all over his mouth never leaves his face.
Unfortunately, there is no need to talk about happiness and joy. Children with Parsley syndrome have problems with speech development, their coordination is impaired, and in 80% of cases epilepsy is also observed.
Children with Angelman syndrome are trusting and good-natured, they love to listen, and are drawn to people who show interest in them. As they grow older, developmental delays appear. Patients may be socially adapted to a certain extent, but will need care throughout their lives, since they will forever remain “children.” The ability to adapt depends on the degree of chromosome damage. Some patients manage to learn to take care of themselves and run a household, while others cannot even stand up without assistance.
Laughter as a symptom of brain damage
Some forms of epilepsy cause fits of laughter in the patient. The cause of involuntary bouts of laughter, which are in no way related to the emotions experienced, can be a brain tumor or cyst, as well as an acute stroke. Laughter occurs when there is pressure on the corresponding areas of the brain (the anterior cingulate cortex), and only neurosurgery can eliminate the cause of unhealthy fun.
Uncontrollable laughter may signal the development of multiple sclerosis and Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. Sometimes causeless laughter is observed in Alzheimer's disease - in the early stages.
Smile or grimace of pain? Myasthenia and tetanus
Tetanus is a dangerous disease that can be prevented, but is extremely difficult to cure if it has gone too far. Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani, a dumbbell-shaped anaerobic bacterium that attacks the nervous system. The bacterium produces a strong poison - tetanotoxin, which is carried through the bloodstream throughout the body and penetrates the nerve fibers. Any random nerve impulse causes muscle contraction, without subsequent relaxation.
When the facial muscles are damaged, a grimace appears on the face, known as a “sardonic smile”: the corners of the mouth are stretched and drawn down, the eyes are squinted, and tense folds gather on the forehead. It looks scary, despite the name “smile”.
In the world-famous painting of the great Leonardo da Vinci, Gioconda is depicted with a slight half-smile. The lady's eyelids are slightly lowered, her face is serene. Apparently these external signs prompted doctors to call “Gioconda’s smile” a symptom of another serious disease - myasthenia gravis.
The main signs of myasthenia gravis are increasing muscle weakness and constant pathological fatigue. The disease can affect different muscle groups, causing corresponding symptoms. When the facial and masticatory muscles are damaged, the “Gioconda smile” appears: a motionless face like a mask, drooping eyelids (ptosis), lips stretched into a line. The patient may not even have the strength to open his mouth, chew and swallow food.
When the respiratory muscles are damaged, shortness of breath develops, and damage to the skeletal muscles deprives the patient of the ability to move.
There is still debate about the causes of myasthenia gravis. Researchers are looking for the origins of the disease in the disruption of biochemical processes, in the dysfunction of muscle tissue and in the functioning of the central nervous system. nervous system. It has been established that the development of myasthenia gravis is influenced by the thymus gland, and possibly by lymphocytes, whose function is to protect the body from foreign agents. The latter gives grounds to classify myasthenia gravis as an autoimmune disease.
Pathological laughter: “I laugh from pain”
In some cases, uncontrollable laughter occurs as a reaction to severe stress, fear, or grief.
There are cases when at a funeral or upon receiving news of the death of dear people, a person begins to laugh, and so much so that he cannot stop. Tears may flow from the eyes like a river, and laughter may at times turn into sobbing, but not stop.
Severe stress can also trigger a fit of uncontrollable laughter. For example, the fear of failing an exam or extreme embarrassment when meeting the strict parents of a loved one are quite capable of provoking unstoppable laughter.
During the Great Patriotic War A case of mass pathological laughter was described. A unit of Hitler's army occupied a small village. Residents rushed to run through the deep snow towards the forest, followed by bursts of machine gun fire. While running away, people... laughed. Excitedly. Falling under bullets, covering their children, dying - they laughed, with horror in their eyes and mortal melancholy in their hearts.
Answering machine on the helpline:
Welcome to our mental health emergency hotline!
If you are too impulsive, press 1 several times quickly.
If you feel addicted, ask someone to press 2.
If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5 and 6.
If you have delusions of persecution, we know who you are and what you want, just don’t go anywhere, while we track your call.
If you have schizophrenia, listen carefully and a quiet voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are depressed, it doesn’t matter what you click... no one will answer anyway...
A man comes to a psychologist and says:
- Doctor, I have delusions of grandeur! what should I do?
- What do you know about megalomania, pathetic little man!
From a psychologist:
- You know, our daughter is blind from birth, plus she is very greedy and constantly suspects us of not loving her. She thinks that we give ourselves a lot of food, but don’t give her enough...
- You take and cook several kilograms of dumplings and put them all at once - so that she can be convinced of your love.
The parents did just that: they cooked 10 kg of dumplings, put them in a basin and served them on the table. The girl felt a decent pile:
- I can imagine how much you piled on yourself!
A young psychoanalyst addresses his older colleague:
- Tell me, how do you manage to maintain so much strength and energy? After all, you have so many patients, each with their own problems and everyone needs to be listened to?
- Who listens to them?
Two psychologists are talking:
- I always ask every new patient if he plays chess...
- And what?
- If he doesn’t play, I advise you to start playing, and if he plays, I advise you to stop.
- But why?
- I don’t know, but in 80% of cases it helps...
One psychoanalyst married an ugly woman.
“I know,” he said to his friends, explaining his choice, “she’s askew, she has crooked legs, she’s stupid, but what nightmares torment her!”
The plumber finished installing the sink in the psychoanalyst’s office:
- I finished. You have five thousand rubles.
- Do you need money?
- Yes.
- Do you want to talk about this?
Psychologist: I strictly told you that you can drink no more than one hundred grams a day?!!!
Client: Yeah, but do you think that I’m the only one who treats you?
Psychologists say that for a good mood you need to hug 8 people every day. Well, or punch one in the face.
A psychotherapist meets a colleague:
- Yesterday after the banquet, I went into the office, and there was a client. I looked at him and realized that the guy had serious problems. I talked to him and helped him look at the situation in a new way. Just finishing the consultation, the duty officer comes into the office and asks who I’m talking to and why I’m sitting in front of the mirror...
Psychoanalyst:
– Do you smoke?
Patient:
- No.
- Do you drink?
- No.
Psychoanalyst:
- And don’t grin like that, I’ll find something anyway!
Patient:
- Tell me, how long can I tell you everything that comes to mind?
Psychoanalyst:
- Talk, talk, time is money.
Evening, sea, deserted beach. Two psychologists are relaxing and drinking beer. They hear the cry of a drowning man:
- Help! I'm drowning!
One psychologist says:
- The man seems to have a problem.
The second one answers him:
- Yes, but the main thing is that he is already talking about her.
A patient says to her psychoanalyst:
- Doctor, we never quarrel with our husband.
“It’s strange,” the doctor answers. - So you are not made for each other.
After listening to me, my psychoanalyst made an appointment with his own.
