Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. INTRODUCTION Exploring Touch 1
5. PART I THE THEORY OF TOUCH
6. CHAPTER I Touch Deprivation and Counselling as Healing Touch 11
7. CHAPTER II Thinking About Touch 33
8. CHAPTER III Contributions of Sensory Anthropology and Durand’s Anthropology to the Symbolic Study of Touch and the Understanding of Boundaries in Psychotherapy 51
9. Chapter IV Healing and the Forbidden Touch: A Reflection on Selected Scripture Stories 69
10. PART II THE PRACTICE OF TOUCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
11. CHAPTER V The Intervention of Touch in Psychotherapy and Trauma Treatment 83
12. CHAPTER VI A Puppy’s Touch: Destressing with Dogs in a University Environment 107
13. CHAPTER VII Inter-Partner Touch in Couple Counselling: Theory and Emerging Practice 125
14. PART III THE PRACTICE OF TOUCH IN A SPECTRUM OF PRACTICE
15. CHAPTER VIII The Practice of the Laying on of Hands in Islamic Spiritual Care 145
16. Chapter IX An Angel in My Pocket: Touch, Sacred Objects, and Spiritual Coping 161
17. Chapter X Touch(ed) in Palliative Care Nursing: Moving with/in An Uncertain Practice 177
18. Chapter XI Touch in Supervision 195
19. PART IV THE ETHICS OF TOUCH IN THE HELPING RELATIONSHIPS AND CONCLUSION
20. CHAPTER XII The Ethics of Touch in the Helping Relationships 211
21. CONCLUSION Issues of Touch: An Overall View and Integration 237
22. Contributors 249