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The Male‐to‐Male Embrace: Breaking the Touch Taboo in a Men's Therapy Group
Author(s) -
RABINOWITZ FREDRIC E.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1991.tb02648.x
Subject(s) - taboo , closeness , psychology , socialization , adult male , interpersonal communication , therapeutic touch , group psychotherapy , social psychology , interpersonal relationship , psychotherapist , developmental psychology , medicine , sociology , alternative medicine , mathematical analysis , mathematics , anthropology , pathology
Because traditional male gender‐role socialization prohibits male‐to‐male touching except in specific situations, many men in North American culture rarely have the chance to use physical contact to convey caring or closeness in male relationships. The author describes a men's therapy group in which touch seems to facilitate self‐disclosure and interpersonal communication.