TY - BOOK ID - 134024354 TI - The Significance of Touch in Psychiatry : Clinical and Neuroscientific Approaches AU - Müller-Oerlinghausen, Bruno AU - Eggart, Michael PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Humanities KW - Social interaction KW - orienting reflex KW - motivational system KW - touch therapy KW - integrative psychotherapy KW - somatic psychology KW - touch KW - pain KW - C-tactile afferents KW - fibromyalgia KW - anhedonia KW - fMRI KW - posterior insula KW - sports massage KW - current emotional state KW - mood KW - therapist’s sex KW - athlete’s sex KW - massage therapy KW - psychoactive massage KW - affect-regulating massage therapy KW - affective touch KW - depression KW - interoception KW - C-tactile fibers KW - body psychotherapy KW - chronic back pain KW - oxytocin KW - somatoform pain (ICD 10) KW - somatic symptom disorder (DSM-5) KW - n/a KW - therapist's sex KW - athlete's sex UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134024354 AB - 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 touch and massage therapy. This book contributes to this rapidly expanding area of research and gives new insights on recent clinical and experimental findings. A strong plea is made by the editors for well-designed clinical studies which require very special methodologies. A broad spectrum of various touch therapies are already available at present. Modern treatment and prevention of mental disorders should go beyond the pharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches and should make use of the beneficial effects of touch therapies with the additional benefit of a very small risk of adverse outcomes. ER -