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IS THE PRIMAL DREAM OVER? AN INSIDER INVESTIGATES JANOV?S PR IBD

IPBOOKS
05 / 2025
9781956864939
Inglés

Sinopsis

Colin Feltham, now an Emeritus Professor of Counseling in the UK, was a patient in Arthur JanovâÇÖsáprimal therapy in 1978 to 1979. Lured by the hyperbolic promises ináThe Primal Screamá(1970), touted as the (only) cure for neurosis, he went to Los Angeles for the âÇÖreal thingâÇÖ, since Janov warnedáagainst so-called mock primal therapists. Like many others, he was sorely disappointed by this expensive therapy. Applying scholarly analysis, investigativeázeal, self-disclosure, and some humor, Feltham pores over JanovâÇÖs claims critically in this important book. Did primal patients really recall vivid emotional traumas from early childhood, birth and womb-life? How did Janov develop his therapy from 1967 until his death in 2017? Did confabulation play a large and unrecognised role in JanovâÇÖs construction of primal therapy? What attracted so many big names like John Lennon to JanovâÇÖs Primal Institute in West Hollywood? What explains the discreditingáand near-obsolescence of primal therapy today? Professor Feltham doesnâÇÖt stop there but asks if the denigration of primal therapy masks the failures of many other, more sober and even âÇÖevidence-basedâÇÖ forms of modern psychotherapy. Readers interested in psychotherapy generally and some of its cult-like qualitiesáwill find this book fascinating.

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18,53