The Touch Taboo in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life

Tamar Swade (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-23402-7 (ISBN)

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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.

The author traces the development and perpetuation of the touch taboo, puts forward counterarguments to it, outlines criteria for the safe and effective use of touch in therapy, and suggests ways of dismantling the touch taboo should we wish to do so. Through moving interviews with clients who have experienced life-changing benefits of physical contact at the hands of their therapists, the place of touch in therapy practice is re-evaluated and the therapy profession urged to re-examine its attitudes towards this important therapeutic tool.

This book will be essential reading for therapists, counsellors, social workers, educators, health professionals and for any general reader interested in the crucial issue of touch in everyday life.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.04.2020
Zusatzinfo	5 Tables, black and white; 16 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-23402-5 / 0367234025
ISBN-13	978-0-367-23402-7 / 9780367234027
Zustand	Neuware