Laughter therapy. The international guide

The main goal of this book is to show how wide and interesting the field of laughter therapy is.
The book can serve as a practical aid to scientists who are looking for sources for their own research; to teachers who need material for their courses; to students who discover problems of laughter therapy and have to write dissertations about them. However, it can particularly be of use to people who want to work or are already working with sick people or those suffering, and want to improve their or their own living conditions.
It is one of the most extensive guidebooks on this topic in world literature. Within it are the titles of hundreds of books, journals, articles and films in more than a score of languages. The handbook also lists memoirs, study books and literary works about laughter therapy.
Within the guidebook there is detailed information (title, name and place of the press, year of publication) about the most often cited works in several scientific disciplines (e.g. medicine, psychology, education). Readers will find in it the titles of works by pioneers and outstanding contemporary experts in laughter therapy.
The guidebook has a very rich index of websites about laughter therapy and an index of films about. It indicates world-wide associations, laughter clubs, institutions of scientific exploration of laughter, and so on.
About the author
Przemysław Paweł Grzybowski - PhD in Humanities in the field of education, lecturer in the General and Comparative Education Department of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). His academic interests concentrate on the intercultural and comparative education. Coordinator of the "Miedzyszkolnik” - discussion list of the Young Pedagogists Forum attached to the Scientific Committee of Education of the Polish Academy of Sciences, mentor of the Academic Voluntary Center attached to Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Author travels around the world as a lecturer of the international language, speaker and journalist. A participant of the Patch Adams’s movement of the clown-doctors. Took part in the numerous international educational projects in Brazil, China, France, Peru, Romania and Vietnam. Author of the several academic papers and monographs.