ABSTRACT
The late 1960s and early ’70s was an era characterized by the “summer-of-love,” bell-bottom pants, long hair, and the philosophy espousing you to “do your own things as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.” Then there was psychotherapy — encounter groups, rolfing, physically stroking clients, and hand massages. Any therapist worth his or her salt gave each and every client a fatherly or motherly hug. And why not? The human touch was and still is comforting. Some research even indicates that it is physiologically beneficial.
