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Touch is Really Strange Steve Haines

Touch is Really Strange By Steve Haines

Touch is Really Strange by Steve Haines


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Summary

Our initial experience of life and existence is tactile and spatial at its core. In Touch is Really Strange, Steve Haines takes readers on a fascinating exploration of touch - a complex and fundamental human experience. He explores the science behind how touch makes us feel real and connected, and how it is essential to the development of consciousness and to perception.

Touch is Really Strange Summary

Touch is Really Strange by Steve Haines

Why can't we tickle ourselves?

How can slow touch convey more powerful emotions than fast touch?

How does touch shape our perception of the world?


The latest addition to the Really Strange series, this science-based graphic comic addresses these questions and more, revealing the complexity of touch and exploring its power and limits. Used positively, touch can change pain and trauma, communicate compassion and love and generate social bonding. Get it wrong and it can be abusive and terrifying.
Touch helps us feel real. Knowledge comes through our body as we engage with space and with others. Before we have language, our concepts are formed as we meet a world full of edges and textures. Touch is Really Strange celebrates the power of inward touch (interoception) and looks at how we can use skilful contact to promote feelings of joy, connection and vitality.

Touch is Really Strange Reviews

Touch is Really Strange is a wonderful addition to the Really Strange Series. Steve is a creative storyteller who is adept at making the science of complex human experiences accessible, interesting, engaging, and understandable, especially as it is brought to life through Sophie's visually arresting and deeply human artwork. This is a beautiful story about science, touch, and being human. It doesn't shy away from nuance and complexity, it embraces them to wonderful effect. -- Joletta Belton

About Steve Haines

Steve Haines is a trainer, bodyworker and author. He has studied Yoga, Shiatsu, Craniosacral Therapy, TRE® (Trauma Releasing Exercises) and is a UK registered Chiropractor. Steve is the bestselling author of Pain is Really Strange, Trauma is Really Strange and Anxiety is Really Strange, which was Highly Commended by the BMA in 2018. He lives between London and Geneva. www.bodycollege.net Sophie Standing is an illustrator and designer, specialising in human sciences. Her style combines digital and hand-made, with an emphasis on rich colour, textures and metaphorical concepts. https://www.sophiestandingillustration.com/

Additional information

NGR9781787757103
9781787757103
1787757102
Touch is Really Strange by Steve Haines
New
Paperback
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
2021-04-21
32
N/A
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