title: Using humor in psychotherapy with a sex offender.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 70609-1895.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Eisenman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010378:Pedophilia / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011330:Prisons; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000523:psychology*; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic