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Touch as embodied compassion in responses to pain and distress
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4580-3002
2021 (English)In: Touch in social interaction: touch, language, and body / [ed] Asta Cekaite, Lorenza Mondada, Oxon: Routledge, 2021, p. 81-102Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter examines the recurrent features of haptic compassionate responses to children’s pain-occasioned distress. It shows an intricate interplay between emotion regulation as embodied, physical, and emotional soothing. Caregivers’ sensorially rich responses signaled intimacy and compassion through the assemblage of sustained embracing and skin-to-skin (between the participants’ faces) surface of bodily contact. Physical intertwining between the caregiver and the child served allowed co-perception and affective attunement. Skin-to-skin touch within particular bodily areas was an important haptic modality that converged multiple functions: examining and diagnosticizing trouble, soothing pain, and comforting distress. The adults’ haptic responses were oriented at the children’s emotional stance of distress rather than a specific space of physical pain. Touch was used as a mediator between the child and the caregiver, bringing about emotional bonding between them.

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Oxon: Routledge, 2021. p. 81-102
Keywords [en]
touch, social interaction, empathy, compassion, crying
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-167852Libris ID: jwv5pfl9g2tmm2mgISBN: 9781138541931 (print)ISBN: 9781138541986 (print)ISBN: 9781003026631 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-167852DiVA, id: diva2:1456594
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Swedish Research CouncilAvailable from: 2020-08-05 Created: 2020-08-05 Last updated: 2020-11-24Bibliographically approved

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