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Using humor in psychotherapy with a sex offender
1Department of Psychology, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 70609-1895.
Psychological Reports
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
Humor was used during psychotherapy with a 22-year-old child molester. The humor appeared to help establish rapport and led to his admission of desires to rape and torture adult women. Here exchange of humor seemed to be a helpful adjunct to psychotherapy.