Why women love hot water bottles and men should drink more tea
Premature twins develop more healthily if they touch in their crib. A mountain slope seems less steep to friends if they hold hands while they climb up. Couples show increased heart health and less hypertension if they embrace at least once in the mornings and evenings. In short: touch is healthy, touch connects body and mind, touch can heal. In clear, everyday language, Werner Bartens illustrates recent research in the field of haptics – the science of touch – and its contribution to medicine and neuroscience, to body and mind. Touch is a master key to the often suppressed emotions which hinder or drive us. Used well, touch can open new worlds of experience and help us realise what is truly important to us.
