Arthur Janov

Dr. Arthur Janov (born 1924) is the inventor of Primal therapy and directs a Primal Center in Venice, California, USA. He is a licensed psychologist in that state. He is the author of ten books, including The Primal Scream, which advocated expressing long-repressed feelings of pain and anger in raw, emotional wails. His writings were the inspiration for the names of British pop bands Tears For Fears and Primal Scream, as well as John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1970 album Plastic Ono Band. Janov's more recent work, including The New Primal Scream, claims to have advanced beyond mere 'screaming' to embrace a more sophisticated and integrated approach. One of the fundamental principles of Primal therapy remains that therapeutic progress can only be made through direct emotional experience which allows access to the source of psychological pain in the lower brain and nervious system. According to Primal therapy, psychological therapies which involve only talking about the problem (referred to as "Talking Therapies") are of limited effectiveness because the cortex, or higher reasoning area of the brain, has no ability to affect the real source of psychological pain in other areas of the brain.

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