Body Language

by Fast, Julius

• ISBN13: 9780871319821
• ISBN10: 0871319829
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-23
• Publisher: M. Evans & Company

Summary

This classic book, which has sold over three million copies, was the first to features the phrase 'body language'. It introduces 'kinesics', the science of non-verbal communication, which is used to analyse the common gestures we use and observe every day, gestures which reveal our deepest feelings and hidden throughout to total strangers -- if they know how to read them.

Table of Contents

The Body is the Message	1	(8)
A Science Called Kinesics
A New Signal from the Unconscious
How to Tell the Girls Apart
To Touch or Not to Touch
A Touch of Loneliness
Of Animals and Territory	9	(10)
The Symbolic Battle
Can We Inherit Language?
``The Territorial Imperative''
How Much Space Does a Man Need?
How We Handle Space	19	(16)
A Space to Call Your Own
A Science Called Proxemics
Social and Public Space
How Different Cultures Handle Space
The Western World's Way with Space
When Space is Invaded	35	(18)
Defending Body Zones
Advice for Status Seekers
How to be a Leader
The Space We Hold Inviolate
Of Space and Personality
Sex and Non-Persons
Ceremonies and Seating
The Masks Men Wear	53	(12)
The Smile that Hides the Soul
Take off the Mask
The Mask that Won't Come Off
When is a Person Not a Person
The Masochist and the Sadist
How to Drop the Mask
The Wonderful World of Touch	65	(14)
Come Hold My Hand
The Crippling Masks
You are What You Feel
How to Break Out of a Shell
The Silent Cocktail Party
Playing Games for Health's Sake
The Silent Language of Love	79	(20)
Stance, Glance and Advance
Is She Available?
Is the Face Worth Saving?
Pickups, AC and DC
Choose Your Posture
Semi-Sexual Encounters
Positions, Points and Postures	99	(22)
A Cry for Help
What Does Your Posture Say?
Different Places, Different Postures
The Movement and the Message
Postures and Presentations
Jockeying for Position
Three Clues to Family Behavior
Winking, Blinking and Nods	121	(14)
The Stare that Dehumanizes
A Time for Looking
The Awkward Eyes
Bedroom Eyes
Other Cultures, Other Looks
A Long Look at Oneself
How Long is a Glance?
An Alphabet for Movement	135	(16)
Is There a Language of Legs?
The ABC of Body Language
Labeling the Kines
Culture and Kinesics
Follow the Leader
Body Language: Use and Abuse	151	(10)
Let's Talk to the Animals
Symbols in a World Without Sound
Mental Healing Through Body Language
Faking Body Language
Putting it all Together
Selected References	161