With more than 300,000 copies sold, this landmark book is an impressive examination of the importance of touching. "All professionals concerned with human behavior will find something of value. . . . Parents . . . can gain insight into the nurturing needs of infants."--Janet Rhoads, American Journal of Occupational Therapy
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"Excellent and well-documented." -- Psychology Today
The mother and father of all books written on touch. -- Dr. Jules Older
The mother and father of all books written on touch. -- Dr. Jules Older
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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
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An amazing book on parenting and the touching humans need!,
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This review is from: Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin (Paperback)
If you only get one book on parenting and how to raise a child get this one. This is a thick book with lots of research to support the ideas presented by Dr. Montague. However scholastic this book might be it is very readable. If you find the title misleading some chapter headings are breastfeeding, tender loving care, the physiological effects of touching, skin and sex and growth and development. The skin and sex chapter discusses how touching our children affects their sexuality. This is one amazing book full of data that instructs us to hold our children close as long as possible and why this is so critical to their development in every aspect. Read it!!!
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent for everyone to read about importance of touch,
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This review is from: Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin (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.
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent! A must read for health care workers.,
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This review is from: Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin (Paperback)
This highly readable work does a wonderful job explaining the significance of touch in the physical and emotional life of humans. A better understanding of touch can alter the way we interact and is especially important to health care workers.
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The skin, the flexible, continuous caparison of our bodies, like a cloak covers us all over. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postnatal functioning, cutaneous experience, gentled rats, early tactile experience, inadequate cutaneous, gentled animals, tactile behavior, postpartum contact, tactual experience, maternal touch, nursing couple, proximity senses, affectional system, cutaneous contact, tactile communication, letdown reflex, tactile stimulation, skin stimulation, tactile values, tactile contact, therapeutic touch, maternal stimulation, cutaneous stimulation, wire mother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The skin, the flexible, continuous caparison of our bodies, like a cloak covers us all over. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postnatal functioning, cutaneous experience, gentled rats, early tactile experience, inadequate cutaneous, gentled animals, tactile behavior, postpartum contact, tactual experience, maternal touch, nursing couple, proximity senses, affectional system, cutaneous contact, tactile communication, letdown reflex, tactile stimulation, skin stimulation, tactile values, tactile contact, therapeutic touch, maternal stimulation, cutaneous stimulation, wire mother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, World War, Reva Rubin, Netsilik Eskimo, Margaret Mead, Anna Freud, Ashley Montagu, Hawthorn Books, Luther Emmett Holt, New Zealand, Oxford English Dictionary, San Francisco, Truby King, Great Russians, Margaret Ribble, The Direction of Human Development New!
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- Human Milk in the Modern World: Psychosocial, Nutritional and Economic Significance by D.B. Jelliffe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Growing Young: Second Edition by Ashley Montagu in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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