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Psychosomatic Medicine 29:606-611 (1967)
© 1967 American Psychosomatic Society

Tickle--the Itch That Moves

A Psychophysiological Hypothesis

THOMAS MINTZ M.D.1

1 9629 Brighton Way, Beverly Hills, Calif.

An attempt is made to frame a hypothesis concerning the universal human phenomenon of tickling and its responses. Some of Darwin's postulates concerning what makes tickling pleasurable are combined with some basic neurologic data for a speculative variation on the pleasure-pain principle: that tickling is closely related to itching in both a neurological and a psychological sense.

Submitted on October 14, 1966






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