Tamar Swade

The Touch Taboo in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Touch has been a taboo in mainstream Western talking therapies since their inception. This book examines the effects on us of touch, and of touch deprivation - what we feel when we are touched, what it means to us, and the fact that some individuals and cultures are more tactile than others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780367234027
• ISBN-10: 0367234025
• Artikelnr.: 59862114

Autorenporträt

Tamar Swade has sustained several parallel careers, as psychotherapist, teacher, musician, entertainer, and creator of 'Theatre in Education' plays. She loves dancing, singing, being and running in nature, singing songs with small children, and often protests against injustices.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction SECTION 1: TOUCH IN EVERYDAY LIFE 01. Animal touch research
02. Human touch research 03. Negative touch 04. The tactility scale 05. The
origins of attitudes to touch; how tactile habits are formed 06. Touch in
everyday life; what 'ordinary' people (non-clients) said about touch
SECTION 2: TOUCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY 07. Can touch help or hinder therapy?
Clients' experience 08. Wisdom from the literature 09. Origins of the touch
taboo in psychotherapy 10. Counterarguments to the touch taboo 11. Criteria
for the successful use of touch in therapy 12. Dismantling the touch taboo
13. Overall summary, conclusions and final thoughts