Place Of Touch Research Articles

PEDAGOGÍA DEL CUERPO SENSIBLE: TACTO Y VISIÓN EN LA DANZA

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o lugar do tato e da visão no âmbito da pedagogia do corpo sensível na dança Contato Improvisação (CI) a partir dos conteúdos da seção educacional da revista Contact Quarterly. Com base nas contribuições da filosofia e da psicologia da percepção, nós aplicamos os conceitos de sinestesia de Merleau Ponty, bem como o do toque ativo e visão cinestésica de Gibson. O estudo permite identificar conceitos, funções e técnicas do treino sensorial da dança CI e destacar as capacidades tácteis e visuais como dimensões que não pertencem apenas ao olho ou à mão, respectivamente, mas a todo o corpo.

Un parcours de recherche dans le soin et le toucher de relation

Passionate about the relational dimension of care, this nurse-turned-researcher shares with us the key stages of her university career guided by the place of touch in the therapeutic relationship.

Touch, Physical Restraint and Therapeutic Containment in Residential Child Care

Within Glasgow School of Social Work, Laura is a SIRCC-funded lecturer and course director for the MSc in Advanced Residential Child Care. She has eleven years of practice and management experience, both in residential treatment centres in the USA (explicitly therapeutic programmes for young people and families who are experiencing difficulties) and in residential child care in Scotland. Much of her teaching is specific to residential child care, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She also teaches ethics and has an undergraduate degree in philosophy *CorrespondencetoLauraSteckley,GlasgowSchoolofSocialWork,UniversityofStrathclyde, Abstract The relationship between touch and physical restraint in residential child care is not well understood. Theories of therapeutic containment offer insight into the practice of phys- ical restraint, the place of touch in residential child care practice and the impact of wider fears about touching between children and adults. Early experiences of containment necessarily involve touch through feeding, holding and other forms of soothing. Yet, for those who have not had 'good enough' early experiences of containment, their need for containment (including containing touch) may remain high. Physical restraint, a not uncommon practice in residential child care, simultaneously embodies extremes of both touch and containment. This paper, then, uses theories of therapeutic containment to illuminate the relationship between touch and physical restraint. It offers findings of a large-scale, qualitative study that explored the experiences of physical restraint of chil- dren, young people and staff in residential child care in Scotland. It provides evidence that staff experience anxieties related to touching young people, that some young people use physical restraint to meet needs for touch, that touch is used to contain dis- tress and avoid restraint, and that touch-related fears may be limiting its ameliorating use, thus potentially increasing the use of physical restraint.

The Place of Touch in the Arts

Research Article| April 01 2007 The Place of Touch in the Arts Christopher Perricone Christopher Perricone Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Aesthetic Education (2007) 41 (1): 90–104. https://doi.org/10.2307/4140242 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Perricone; The Place of Touch in the Arts. Journal of Aesthetic Education 1 January 2007; 41 (1): 90–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/4140242 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of Aesthetic Education Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2007 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Therapeutic touch and the older person: healing and connecting

Steve Wright and Jean Sayre-Adams discuss the place of touch and healing in the care of patients and outline the importance of incorporating this into a holistic care system.

The Vitalizing and the Revitalizing Experience of Reliability: The place of touch in psychotherapy

A particular psychotherapeutic procedure described by the authors as “The Vitalizing and the Revitalizing Experience of Reliability,” is used as an adjunct to enhance the effectiveness of the treatment. Characteristically, it is a nonmanipulative, nonseductive procedure used during particular stressful times with certain patients—adults as well as children—to facilitate a confirmation of the self as separate from others. It should also instill in the patient a feeling of increased safety and reliability as well as promoting basic trust in self and others with the ultimate goal of reintegration of a fragmented ego. Such an adjunct can take various forms. The one described here is a highly controversial one, physical touch. Two clinical examples are given which emphasize transferential and countertransferential considerations. The paper describes the delicate balance between discipline and flexibility required by the therapist.

Touch, Sexuality and Power in Residential Settings

SUMMARY This paper examines areas of concern surrounding touch, sexuality and associated power in residential establishments. The place of touch and the expression of sexuality are considered in relation to residents and staff. It is suggested that these are important factors in framing a concept of residential care based on rights and duties, and that current practice often takes a limited perspective of some of the fundamental needs of residents. In Hannah Green's book / never promised you a rose garden we read about Deborah's parents: 'When he and Esther quarrelled, the crucial thing remained unspoken, leaving an atmosphere of wordless rancour and accusation.'1 The guarded reference to the issues which are discussed in this paper results in a similar atmosphere in many residential establishments. Touch, sexuality and associated power—the genesis of common problems, uncommonly discussed—remain subtle, interacting forces which determine a great deal of what happens in any institution and bite deeply into the life patterns of those concerned. Yet comment about them is often oblique, self-conscious, excessively ribald or accusatory, denying the core content. Frequently the underlying meaning is harsh, wounding to the recipient or defamatory about the third person. Somehow we all feel uncomfortable dealing with these subjects in a close-living environment. If we can distance ourselves from them and clutch at 'public opinion', the good of the greatest number or the security of referral to those more elevated in the hierarchy, the personal involvement lessens and we can hurriedly pass on to the next matter. This appears strange in a world wherein all owe their existence to touch in reproduction and in mothering, all have sexuality from birth and all have power, if only in bringing about their own premature deaths as a means of stirring the public conscience. Perhaps it is this very baseness which is so disturbing. However, if we are to make more than semantic progress in