Amelia Auckett

Amelia Auckett, a practicing nurse for more than 25 years, headed the Infant Welfare Centre in Frankston, Victoria, Australia, and taught baby massage through lectures and workshops at hospitals, institutes, and universities. Her film, Family Massage , has been shown throughout the world. She is the mother of two sons. Tiffany Field, Ph.D., who contributed the introduction to this edition, has been an active researcher in massage therapy for the last twenty years and, in 1992, founded and...See more

Amelia Auckett, a practicing nurse for more than 25 years, headed the Infant Welfare Centre in Frankston, Victoria, Australia, and taught baby massage through lectures and workshops at hospitals, institutes, and universities. Her film, Family Massage , has been shown throughout the world. She is the mother of two sons. Tiffany Field, Ph.D., who contributed the introduction to this edition, has been an active researcher in massage therapy for the last twenty years and, in 1992, founded and directed the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine. See less