Chronically Under and Over Touched™: The Hidden Politics of Neglect, Control, and Human Connection is more than a book.
It’s a social, spiritual, and political reckoning.

From neglected school libraries to the saturation of consumer messaging. From the emotional exile of boys to the layered extraction of women’s labor—structured by gender, race, and economic power. From the illusions of whiteness to the lingering residue of colonial rule—this work exposes how touch has been weaponized and withheld across bodies, borders, and generations.

Dr. Simona L. Brickers invites readers to examine the architecture of neglect, control, and care across:

• School

• Workplaces

• Healthcare systems

• Masculinity

• Global policy

• The environment

This critique is a call to remember how connection has been distorted—and how it might be restored ethically, intentionally, and without extraction.

Why are some bodies over-watched, over-regulated, and continuously managed—
touched too often by systems that harm?

Why are others encouraged to believe they are safe—
protected not by care, but by distance, silence, or false security?

Chronically Under and Over Touched™ asks:
How have we all—across race, gender, class, and geography—been shaped by a world that mistakes dominance for connection and abandonment for neutrality?

This is not just a book.
It’s an invitation to see touch as a right, not a reward.
A reckoning.
A roadmap.
A call to transformation.