Touch in Psychotherapy

Theory, Research, and Practice

Edited by Edward W. L. Smith, Pauline Rose Clance, and Suzanne Imes

Paperback
Paperback
February 15, 2001
ISBN 9781572306622
Price: $39.00
248 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
Copyright Date: 1998
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Contents

I. Theoretical and Ethical Considerations

1. Traditions of Touch in Psychotherapy, Smith

2. Touch in Context, Kertay and Reviere

3. A Taxonomy and Ethics of Touch in Psychotherapy, Smith

4. A Rationale for Physical Touching in Psychotherapy, Bar-Levav

II. Research Perspectives

5. Research on Communication by Touch, Fagan and Silverthorn

6. Differences Between Therapists Who Touch and Those Who Do Not, Milakovich

7. Therapists' Recall of Their Decision-Making Processes Regarding the Use of Touch in

Ongoing Psychotherapy: A Preliminary Study, Clance and Petras

8. The Experience of Nonerotic Physical Contact in Traditional Psychotherapy, Geib

9. Further Research on the Patient's Experience of Touch in Therapy, Horton

III. Insights from Practice

10. Thoughts on Using Touch in Psychotherapy, Fagan

11. An Object Relations Perspective on the Use of Touch in Psychotherapy,

Glickhauf-Hughes and Chance

12. Long-Term Client's Experience of Touch in Gestalt Therapy, Imes

13. Touch and Clients Who Have Been Sexually Abused, Lawry

14. The Impact of Physical Touch on Professional Development, Mandelbaum

15. Jean's Legacy: On the Use of Physical Touch in Long-Term Psychotherapy, Torraco