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An examination of the importance of touching.
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The skin, the flexible, continuous caparison of our bodies, like a cloak covers us all over. Read the first page
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ashley Montague is really on target about the needs of the human body in regard to touch.Infants who bond with their parents the first few years of life are so much more secure. He has written such valuable information which is more relevant today than ever. We could have less violent children and adults if proper touch and bonding occurred as infants. Read this book and practice it as a means of creating peace in the world. Spread the word to hospitals to teach new parents about the importance of touch for their infants. Read and recommend this book to all of your friends.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ashley Montagu's wonderful book, which appears to go in and out of print - so get it if you can! - is a densely written and fascinating account of that most ignored of senses, touch. The skin is of course our largest sense organ, and the one which develops first, in embryonic terms.
Montagu's book, containing often horrific accounts of experiments carried out on baby animals - and human babies - shows the deep importance of good touch in our lives.
For a bodyworker, a book like this is an absolute treasure. It provides the evidence which we know, that the effects of massage are incredibly profound, on soma and on psyche, and that massage is much much more than just 'fluffy feelgood' - in fact, this book, along with, for example,The Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel really demonstrates the scientific basis for good touch.
Montagu was clearly a deeply compassionate individual, and the fine combination of heart and head in his writing is refreshingly balanced.
In the preface to the third edition he writes:
'Where touching begins, there love and humanity also begin - within the first minutes following birth. It is to make these facts known, and their consequences for each of us and for humanity as a whole, that this book has been written'
This is a scientific tome which is also humanitarian, and potentially of interest to psychologists, psychotherapists, bodyworkers, sociologists, educators, paediatricians and other clinicians as well as those with an interest in mysticism given form.
Amazing!
Montagu's book, containing often horrific accounts of experiments carried out on baby animals - and human babies - shows the deep importance of good touch in our lives.
For a bodyworker, a book like this is an absolute treasure. It provides the evidence which we know, that the effects of massage are incredibly profound, on soma and on psyche, and that massage is much much more than just 'fluffy feelgood' - in fact, this book, along with, for example,The Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel really demonstrates the scientific basis for good touch.
Montagu was clearly a deeply compassionate individual, and the fine combination of heart and head in his writing is refreshingly balanced.
In the preface to the third edition he writes:
'Where touching begins, there love and humanity also begin - within the first minutes following birth. It is to make these facts known, and their consequences for each of us and for humanity as a whole, that this book has been written'
This is a scientific tome which is also humanitarian, and potentially of interest to psychologists, psychotherapists, bodyworkers, sociologists, educators, paediatricians and other clinicians as well as those with an interest in mysticism given form.
Amazing!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Brilliant!!!Though it mainly focuses on research conducted in the 1980s it still packs a punch!!!Great for all budding psychologists as well as mothers to be.It lifts a weignt off your shoulders knowing that someone has finally written down what people have believed in for centuries.Succinct analysis of the human species!
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Boring, repetitive and too reliant on pseudo-scientists' irrelevant...
I am currently training to be an Infant Massage instructor and this is a recommended book.
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Published 17 months ago by Janice Carr
A Mind Opening Experience!
I was recommended this book as I have just finished a baby massage course. its not expensive and the second hand copy I bought is in very good condition. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Daphne
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