Psychology Book including Tickling

[JoBelle]

Ran across this in a web search today. I don't have the book.
A review?

Review from Boston Sunday Globe:
"Phillips...writes about magnificently light subjects (kissing, tickling and, best of all, worrying) with a great deal of insight...He's a bit like an Oliver Sacks of psychoanalysis."
-- Gail Caldwell

LIGHT SUBJECTS?? He must never have visited here....giggle!

Jo

Title On Kissing, Tickling, & Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
Author Phillips, Adam
Subject PSYCHOLOGY_GENERAL
Subject PSYCHOANALYSIS
Publication Date 19940900
Publisher Harvard University Press
ISBN 0674634632
Pagination 152

 

[SuperTickler]

I saw this book in the Psychology section of a bookstore once and immediately picked it up to look through it and see what the author wrote about tickling. I don't remember the details, but it wasn't worth getting...just pyschobabble, nothing that even remotely seemed worth reading. Don't bother getting it, you will be VERY disappointed! 😎

 

[JoBelle]

Thanks Super Tickler!

You probably just saved a bunch of us about 20 bucks at Barnes and Noble!! LOL

Joby

 

[Blackrook]

Just curious, have you ever read ...

The Joy of Touch by Ruger? There is a chapter on erotic tickling. It wasn't great. But, not that bad.

Rook

 

[JoBelle]

Thanks for the suggestion Rook. I'll check that one out!
Jo

 

[milagros317]

better book

Here is another psychology book defininely worth looking for in your local library, possibly worth its retail price ($24.95).

"Laughter: A Scientific Investigation" by Robert R. Provine

Published in 2001. 215 pages total. 29 pages in Chapter 6, entitled "Ticklish Relationships." This chapter has quite a bit about the physiology and psychology of tickling. His speculation on whether anybody pays to be tickled is a bit naive; he should visit some dungeons here in NYC.

 

[Ovda]

I have that book

Milagros. I have that book. It is rather informative. try to find it at a half price book store. Alot cheaper. I got mine for under 10.00.