New Primal Scream: Primal Therapy 20 Years on - Hardcover

Janov, Arthur

4.14

79 ratings by Goodreads

9780942103236: New Primal Scream: Primal Therapy 20 Years on

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0942103238 ISBN 13: 9780942103236

Publisher: Enterprise Pub, 1991

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Repression is the real killer. It strikes us down in many disguised forms, including heart disease and cancer. But where does repression come from? And how can it be relieved?
In THE NEW PRIMAL SCREAM, Dr. Arthur Janov details exactly how ridding the mind of repressed, early childhood or infant traumas has been scientifically linked to the reduction of many serious medical problems. Problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, high blood pressure, cancer, drug and alcohol addiction, sexual difficulties, phobias, obsessions, ulcers, migraines, asthma, and even arthritis.
Though still considered "a rebellious child" in the psychological community, Primal Therapy has been scrutinized carefully for the past two decades by leading research centers throughout the world. Brain research at Rutgers University and the UCLA Brain Research Lab, bio-chemical research at the Open University and immune system and stress research at St. Bartholemew's Hospital in England all confirm that lower heart rates and other improved vital signs and other (key factors in prolonging life expectancy) are clearly evident in Primal Therapy patients.
Dr. Janov's approach is completely natural. Without drugs or any artificial means, patients actually relive core, or Primal traumas sometimes dating all the way back to birth.
THE NEW PRIMAL SCREAM is the culmination of Janov's life's work, featuring completely new case histories, observations, and clinical research not dealt with previously.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Dr Arthur Janov is currently director of the Primal Training Centre in California. He is concluding a musical for the stage called SCREAM! and is in the process of creating a film-video series, THE UNIVERSE OF THE MIND.

From Library Journal:

For a new generation of neurotics (psychotherapists included), psychologist Janov ( The Primal Scream , Putnam, 1970) recycles his famous psychophysiological cure-all for mental illness: primal therapy, widely known as scream therapy. He sticks to his original premise that pain experienced from unfulfilled needs produces an unreal, unfeeling self constantly at war with the real self. However, he now claims his theory has been validated by scientific studies in the fields of immunology, weeping, cancer, and brain science. Janov blends case studies with exposition on repression, imprinting, birth trauma, the difference between "normal" and "neurotic," and a discussion on bogus primal therapists. Along the was he disparages New Age rebirthers and most conventional therapies. Controversial remarks abound, such as, "Optimism . . . may only be a good defense." There's even an oblique reference to the cause of sudden infant death when Janov describes how the terror of being in a dark room alone can trigger earlier birth trauma. Twenty years later, he's still revolutionary, articulate, and maybe right. Highly recommended.
- Janice Aren ofsky, formerly with Arizona State Lib., Phoenix
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.