Crack Me Up 
Humor in relationships is touchy: Laughter can bring you closer, or it can pack a cruel punch. How to avoid the pitfalls and use humor to strengthen your bond.

Also in this issue:

What's Your Humor Style?
Are you a joker? A teaser? A clown? How you deploy your sense of humor says a lot about how you relate to others and to yourself.

Guess Who's Back?
Old flames still smolder, especially when they're early love affairs, which leave a particularly vivid mark in our minds. Reawakening such a romance can be an incendiary experience—intensely passionate and dangerous to trifle with.

Extreme Psychology
For a small band of shrinks, intervening in catastrophic situations is an everyday event. But their experience at the edge has deep consequences for us all: It is altering our understanding of the true nature of human nature.

Tortured Love
Linda Carroll's unorthodox relationship with her famous mother and infamous daughter forced her to reevaluate love, loss and the control we have over the people we most want to protect.