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A Celebration of laughter
Edited by Werner M. Mendel
Publisher: [Los Angeles, Calif., Mara Books, 1970]
ISBN: 0877870004   DDC: 152.442   LCC: PN6147  

Notes:

Written to celebrate the sixty-fifth birthday of Martin Grotjahn.

Includes bibliographies.

Interview with Martin Grotjahn, by L. Mendel.--Humor in America, by
R. Sklar.--It isn't just MIRV, by A. Buchwald.--Humor and paradox, by
R. Bellman.--The third eye of the cartoonist, by M. Grotjahn.--The
smile, by E. Stainbrook.--Laughter in psychotherapy, by M.
Grotjahn.--The destructive potential of humor in psychotherapy, by L.
S. Kubie.--"Gay" jocularity of the homosexual, by L.
Veszy-Wagner.--Grave humor, by R. E. Litman.--Young Freud as a poet,
by A. S. Rogawski.--A God who laughs, by C. Weber.--Jewish jokes and
their relation to masochism, by M. Grotjahn.--"Black"/black humor:
the renaissance of laughter, by J. Boskin.--Laughter and sex, by M.
Grotjahn.--From humor to happiness, by M. Grotjahn.--The new
laughter, by W. M. Mendel.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 152.442 -- Perception, movement, emotions, drives
LCC Number: PN6147

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: 189 p. illus., port. 24 cm.

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