After giving a brief historical account of magical healing involving touch, the author quotes Karl Menninger to the effect that physical contact with the patient constitutes evidence of the incompetence or criminal ruthlessness of the analyst. A few examples of what the author considers acceptable touching are given. Contact should be forbidden if it is primarily to gratify or infantilize the patient, thus fostering dependence. Any touching that is done, and avoidance of touching too, should be discussed. Touch the patient only when it conveys genuine feeling. Inappropriate touching is that which suggests either foreplay or full sexual satisfaction. This is in response to J. L. McCartney's article, Overt Transference, published in the Journal of Sex Research. The reviewer would add that this article was used as the basis for a lurid article in Medical Economics, July 8, 1968, in which McCartney was referred to as a psychoanalyst. For the administrative results of his article, see McCartney's open letter in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, October 1969.