Architectures of Healing: Cure through Sleep, Touch, and Travel, Dimitra Kondylatou, Milica Ivić, David Bergé (eds.), kyklàda.press, 2024, 10.2 x 16.2 cm, 96 pages, PB, ISBN: 9789464202854
Regular price £12.00
Regular price Sale price £12.00
Sale Sold out
Tax included.
Skip to product information

Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement.

Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of care and healing in different time periods: from the powers of sleep, touch, and travel in Asklepieia, the ancient healing temples for divine dream encounters alleviating the pain of the ailing pilgrim; to the attentiveness carried through the healing touch from the establishment of Byzantine hospitals till our times; to a pilgrimage center in modern-day Lesbos on a personal search for healing from the traumas of war and patriarchy; to the liberating and self-preserving powers of sleep as a healing response to past and current systems of oppression.

View full details