Keeping In Touch: Corporeality of Psychological Experience

In this Psychological Humanities and Ethics lecture, Dr. Richard Kearney will argue that touch is our most primordial sense, foundational to our individual and common selves. Kearney explores the role of touch, from ancient wisdom traditions to modern therapies to demonstrate that a fundamental aspect of touch is interdependence, its inherently reciprocal nature, which offers a crucial corrective to our fixation with control - and broadens our understanding of psychological life as primarily one of isolation.