Touch sensation-Embodied psychology for skin and heart

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  • 皮膚感覚―皮膚と心の身体心理学
  • 第57回全日本鍼灸学会学術大会(京都) 教育講演 皮膚感覚--皮膚と心の身体心理学
  • ダイ57カイ ゼンニホン シンキュウ ガッカイ ガクジュツ タイカイ キョウト キョウイク コウエン ヒフ カンカク ヒフ ト ココロ ノ シンタイ シンリガク

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In this article, three topics were discussed. First, touch sensation as interface of self and environment was discussed in terms of Embodied psychology. Second, the effect of touching was discussed. In the first experiment, a psychological change in three groups that had operated the body contact was examined. (touching, being touched, and self touch). The result was that only in touched subjects their anxiety level lowered. Second experiment revealed that the amount of physical touch received from parents in childhood effect their psychological adaptation in their adult period. Third, the mechanism of Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy was discussed in terms of skin. Both therapies intervenes the skin, and they cause the change for internal organs<BR>and the muscle, etc, and, in addition, these changes are reflected in the skin. The skin is, in a word, an interface of the input and the output. The importance of treating the skin from such an aspect, and of the direct contact to the skin was discussed.

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