The Significance of Touch in Psychiatry Clinical and Neuroscientific Approaches

• Other Authors: Müller-Oerlinghausen, Bruno (Editor), Eggart, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; orienting reflex; motivational system; touch therapy; integrative psychotherapy; somatic psychology; touch; pain; C-tactile afferents; fibromyalgia; anhedonia; fMRI; posterior insula; sports massage; current emotional state; mood; therapist's sex; athlete's sex; massage therapy; psychoactive massage; affect-regulating massage therapy; affective touch; depression; interoception; C-tactile fibers; body psychotherapy; chronic back pain; oxytocin; somatoform pain (ICD 10); somatic symptom disorder (DSM-5); n/a
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Touch is one of the fundamental media for interpersonal communication. Over recent decades, scientific efforts have been devoted to establishing the significance of touch, particularly affective touch, in the treatment and prevention of mental disorders and clarifying the underlying mechanisms of to...