Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Kabat-Zinn Jon

Author:Kabat-Zinn, Jon [Kabat-Zinn, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780307567574
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2009-07-20T07:00:00+00:00

Many studies with animals also support the idea that connectedness is important for health. As we have seen, stroking and petting appear to be health enhancing for both people and animals. Animals raised in isolation when they are young never function as normal adults and tend to die sooner than animals raised among littermates. Four-day-old monkeys will cling to a terry cloth surrogate “mother” if separated from their real mother. They will spend more time in physical contact with the soft terrycloth “mother” than with a wire-mesh surrogate, even when the wire one provides milk and the soft one doesn’t! Dr. Harry Harlow of the University of Wisconsin performed such experiments in the late 1950s and clearly demonstrated the importance of warm physical contact between mother and infant in monkeys. Harlow’s baby monkeys chose soft touch with an inanimate object over physical nourishment.

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