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David Mann found his calling early in life by making others laugh as a class clown.

He went on to become a professional humor therapist. He shares the gift of laughter and how it transformed his life in this guide to making people smile.

You may laugh out loud as you read about the pranks he played as a kid, which taught him how humor can be used-and misused. He honed his comedic skills as a camp director helping youngsters and as an adult seeking to navigate life's everyday challenges.

As you read, you'll learn how to: apply techniques that result in healing humor outcomes for...

David Mann found his calling early in life by making others laugh as a class clown.

He went on to become a professional humor therapist. He shares the gift of laughter and how it transformed his life in this guide to making people smile.

You may laugh out loud as you read about the pranks he played as a kid, which taught him how humor can be used-and misused. He honed his comedic skills as a camp director helping youngsters and as an adult seeking to navigate life's everyday challenges.

As you read, you'll learn how to: apply techniques that result in healing humor outcomes for...

In this book, first published in 1991, David Mann argues for more attention to the performer in the study of Elizabethan plays and less concern for their supposed meanings and morals. He concentrates on a collection of extracts from plays which show the Elizabethan actor as a character onstage. He draws from the texts a range of issues concerning performance practice: the nature of iterance; doubling and its implications for presentational acting; the importance of clowning and improvisation; and the effects of audience and venue on the dynamics of performance.

The author suggests...

The Past in the Present brings together, for the first time, contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanistic therapy traditions, looking at how trauma and enactments affect therapeutic practice.

Enactments are often experienced as a crisis in therapy and are understood as symbolic interactions between the client and therapist, where personal issues of both parties become unconsciously entwined. This is arguably especially true if the client has undergone some form of trauma. This trauma becomes enacted in the therapy and becomes a turning point that...

The Past in the Present brings together, for the first time, contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanistic therapy traditions, looking at how trauma and enactments affect therapeutic practice.

Enactments are often experienced as a crisis in therapy and are understood as symbolic interactions between the client and therapist, where personal issues of both parties become unconsciously entwined. This is arguably especially true if the client has undergone some form of trauma. This trauma becomes enacted in the therapy and becomes a turning point that...