Touching
The Human Significance of the Skin

Publisher:  Perrennial Library, New York, USA
Year Published:  1972
Pages:  406pp   Resource Type:  Book

An analysis of the skin regarded as a sense organ rather than as a simple bodily covering.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

The Mind of the Skin
The Womb of Time
Breastfeeding
Tender, Loving Care
Skin and Sex
Growth and Development
Culture and Contact

Envoi
References
Index

Subject Headings

• Affection
• Babies
• Behavioural Change
• Birth
• Birth/Newborn Child
• Brain
• Breastfeeding
• Breasts
• Caressing
• Cats
• Class
• Clothing/Apparel
• Communication
• Communication/Body Language
• Dance
• Dogs
• Emotional Health/Wellbeing
• Emotions
• Eyes
• Faces
• Families
• Family
• Family Dynamics
• Fathers
• Fear
• Freud, Sigmund
• Friends
• Friendship
• Great Apes
• Hair
• Hands
• Infant Development
• Infant Massage
• Infant-Parent Relationships
• Kissing
• Learning
• Love
• Massage Therapy
• Masturbation
• Monkeys
• Mouth
• Music
• Neonatology
• Nose
• Nudism
• Nudity
• Pain
• Parenting
• Personality
• Pleasure
• Psychology
• Punishment
• Relationships
• Security
• Sensitive Skin
• Sexual Behaviour
• Sexuality
• Singing
• Skin
• Sleep
• Smells
• Smile/Smiling
• Socialization
• Stress
• Stress/Children
• Tongue
• Touching