How Touch Can Make or Break Your Life, with David Linden

大卫·林登著,《触摸如何成就或摧毁你的生活》

Good Life Project

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2016-07-11

47 分钟
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Ever wonder why the exact same touch by one person will give you the creeps, but by another will make you yearn for more? On this episode of The Good Life, I am excited to bring you David Linden, a Johns Hopkins Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind. The research that David has been conducting on the effects of touch on the human mind is a powerful reminder of the role touch plays in nearly every aspect of human development. Everything from love to intelligence, sex to attachment, orgasm or itch and beyond... basically, anything we touch or get touched by profoundly influences our personality, perception of people and the world. Whether touch is given or withheld at any age can shape the entirety of our beings. Our neurology, psychology and our ability to live functional, good lives is dependent on touch. If you have ever wondered why touch is so important to the development of infants, or why we find touch so vital to our own mental well-being, you are going to want to turn up the volume and listen in. David answers all of these questions and so many more. In This Episode, You'll Learn: The events that led David to write three books on touch.The catastrophic results when loving touch is withheld from infants.How appropriate touch can change the way a patient views a doctor’s effectiveness and care.How incidental sensory experiences can influence our impressions of others.What touch actually is and how we've adapted different mechanisms to experience it.How touch is involved with everything from orgasm to reading Braille.How touch varies across cultures.Why sexual touch is so powerful. Mentioned in This Episode: Connect with David: David Linden | BlogTouch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind by David LindenDacher Keltner | Greater Good Science CenterJohn BarghPresence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy CuddyNational Institutes of Health Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Now we know that doctors who touch their patients appropriately during their treatment, that their patients have better medical outcomes and reduced stress hormone levels, and the doctors are rated as more caring.

  • Today's guest, David Linden, is a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author, and has written a book called touch the science of hand, heart and mind, which I'm fascinated by.

  • I am somebody who, when I took the love languages test, you know, physical touch is my sort of major love language.

  • And there's just this fascinating exploration of how touch affects us, how everything from love to caresses to sex to scratching and itching to basically anything that we touch or get touched by profoundly influences our personality, our perception of people and the world.

  • And depending on how old or young we are, when we either have touch or have it withheld from us, can literally shape the entirety of our beings, our neurology and our psychology, and our ability to actually live functional, good lives.

  • Really excited to share this in depth conversation with you.

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  • And it's kind of funny for me because, you know, at a sort of completely pop psychology and consumer level, you know, I at some point took my love language test and found out that my primary love language was physical touch.

  • And I'm somebody who's always been very tactically oriented so it's kind of fun to have a conversation where we get to go a little bit deeper into that.

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