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The gift of laughter.
Urol Nurs
December 2004
Physicians and Hospitals, Hospice of Florida Suncoast, FL, USA.
[The modiolus. Comparative anatomy, embryological and physiological review, surgical importance].
Ann Chir Plast Esthet
February 2000
Service de chirurgie plastique reconstructrice et esthétique, chirurgie de la main et microchirurgie, hôpital Pellegrin-Tondu, Bordeaux, France.
Monkeys, imitators of man's gesture never shared smile with him and their facial expressions only result in grimaces. Study of animal anatomy may explain why subtle expressions of the lips are a more man's special gift than laughter. These fine movements are related to a subcutaneous muscular structure termed modiolus, which is the meeting point of muscles involved in the motion of mouth and comparative anatomy shows this structure to be better defined in Man than in other primates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe gift of laughter: on the development of a sense of humor in clinical analysis.
Psychoanal Q
April 1990
Clinical analytic change often brings with it a maturing of the patient's sense of humor, leading to an internalized capacity to acknowledge pain and frustration while soothing oneself with wit. Both the nature of psychic functioning, especially the multiple meanings structured in words, and the nature of the dyadic aspects of clinical analysis contribute to this happy outcome. The structural similarities that jokes and humor bear to transference and self-analytic capacities are also considered.
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