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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PRIMAL THERAPY

From the book The Primal Scream (1970) by Arthur Janov, US psychologist, who originated the treatment.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PRIMAL THERAPY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRIMAL THERAPY

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Primal therapy is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PRIMAL THERAPY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Primal therapy

Primal therapy is a trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov, who argues that neurosis is caused by the repressed pain of childhood trauma. Janov argues that repressed pain can be sequentially brought to conscious awareness and resolved through re-experiencing the incident and fully expressing the resulting pain during therapy. Primal therapy was developed as a means of eliciting the repressed pain; the term Pain is capitalized in discussions of primal therapy when referring to any repressed emotional distress and its purported long-lasting psychological effects. Janov criticizes the talking therapies as they deal primarily with the cerebral cortex and higher-reasoning areas and do not access the source of Pain within the more basic parts of the central nervous system. Primal therapy is used to re-experience childhood pain - i.e., felt rather than conceptual memories - in an attempt to resolve the pain through complete processing and integration, becoming "real". An intended objective of the therapy is to lessen or eliminate the hold early trauma exerts on adult life.

Definition of primal therapy in the English dictionary

The definition of primal therapy in the dictionary is a form of psychotherapy in which patients are encouraged to scream abusively about their parents and agonizingly about their own suffering in infancy Also called: primal scream therapy, scream therapy.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRIMAL THERAPY

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PRIMAL THERAPY

aromatherapy
chemotherapy
electroconvulsive therapy
family therapy
gene therapy
group therapy
hormone replacement therapy
hydrotherapy
hypnotherapy
immunotherapy
occupational therapy
pharmacotherapy
physical therapy
physiotherapy
phytotherapy
psychotherapy
radiation therapy
radiotherapy
speech therapy
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triple combination therapy

Synonyms and antonyms of primal therapy in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «primal therapy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRIMAL THERAPY

Find out the translation of primal therapy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of primal therapy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «primal therapy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

原始疗法
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

terapia primal
570 millions of speakers

English

primal therapy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मौलिक चिकित्सा
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

العلاج البدائية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

первичная терапия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

terapia primal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রাথমিক চিকিত্সা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

thérapie primale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terapi primal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Primärtherapie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

プライマル療法
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

원시 치료
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Primal therapy
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

điều trị nguyên thủy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிரமிள் சிகிச்சை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रथमोपचार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Primal terapi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

terapia primaria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

terapia pierwotna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

первинна терапія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

terapie primara
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

αρχέγονη θεραπεία
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Primaalterapie
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

primalterapi
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

primal terapi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of primal therapy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIMAL THERAPY»

The term «primal therapy» is regularly used and occupies the 106.990 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIMAL THERAPY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about primal therapy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIMAL THERAPY»

Discover the use of primal therapy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to primal therapy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Primal Scream: Primal Therapy : the Cure for Neurosis
A psychologist describes a new form of therapy that forces patients to relive childhood experiences
‎1981
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The Janov Solution: Lifting Depression Through Primal Therapy
Dr. Arthur Janov's book The Primal Scream is one of the most popular nonfiction mental health books ever written. Now Dr. Janov has penned a book that promises to cause a breakthrough in mental health.
Arthur Janov, 2007
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Messiah Interviews: Belonging to God. Beyond Miracles, ...
As the tale unfolds, the challenges of the interviews goes beyond the protagonist and becomes relevant to the lives of each one of us.
Jerry J. Pollock, 2009
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The New Primal Scream: Primal Therapy Twenty Years Later
Taking the primal therapy theory further, this book claims that repressed pain is bad not only for mental, but also for physical health.
Arthur Janov, 1991
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Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing: A Caring Approach
relinquish defenses that prevent recalling and experiencing the pain of early hurts. In primal therapy, the client is isolated in a hotel room for 24 hours before the first session. Customary activities, such as reading, smoking, watching television, ...
Janet L. Davies, Ellen Hastings Janosik, 1991
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Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in ...
According to Janov, primal therapy dispels the "unreal" system that drives one to drink, smoke, take drugs, or otherwise act in a compulsive or irrational way in response to an inner buildup of unbearable feelings. Postprimal patients who have ...
Stanislav Grof, 1985
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Therapy 101: A Brief Look at Modern Psychotherapy Techniques ...
Primal therapy was popularized by psychologist Arthur Janov after a client let out a bloodcurdling scream in session that, supposedly, shook the walls of Janov's room. After this deafening moment, the client said that he could finally feel his ...
Jeffrey C. Wood, Minnie Wood, 2008
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Encyclopedia of Emotion
The three-week intensive required at the beginning of primal therapy can be very expensive. In addition to the cost ($6,000; Miller & Dodd, 1998), clients are instructed to take a leave of absence from work or school for three weeks. During that ...
Gretchen Reevy, Yvette Malamud Ozer, Yuri Ito, 2010
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Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to ...
The essence of Primal Therapy is reliving, going back over early lack of love and traumas that remained in the system as imprints. Imprints are the linchpin of Primal Therapy work for they are engraved into all of our systems and the brain as ...
Arthur Janov, 2006
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The Death of Psychotherapy: From Freud to Alien Abductions
The distinction is that implosion relies on having the patient fantasize trauma, whereas the cathartic approaches, Primal Therapy and Bioenergetics, assume that the patient is re-experiencing actual trauma. Attack Therapy attempts to tear ...
Donald A. Eisner, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRIMAL THERAPY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term primal therapy is used in the context of the following news items.
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10 Best Concerts in Phoenix This Week
In fact, T4F's first worldwide hit “Shout” is about Janov's Primal Therapy, which encourages you to confront your fears by screaming. This gives ... «Phoenix New Times, Jun 15»
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Breathe your way to better health
There is also the rebirth breath made popular by Arthur Janov's primal therapy in the 1970s to heal childhood wounds. It's a dramatic ... «The Australian, May 15»
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Album finds pop-folk singer moving past mom who left
But the primal therapy that led him to scream, "Mama, don't go! Daddy, come home!" became a template for more than 40 years of cathartic ... «Chron.com, May 15»
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With 'Carrie & Lowell,' Stevens joins a mournful pantheon
“Mother” ends in a series of shrieks that were part of the primal therapy he and Yoko Ono were experimenting with at the time. Truly, it is 5½ ... «Boston Globe, May 15»
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Recliner Reviews | 'Cake' tops list of movies you should rent this …
They guard themselves from the ghosts of their past with self-absorbed celebrity lifestyles and self-help and primal therapy. His actors ... «Myrtle Beach Sun News, Apr 15»
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Hejaze: The underrated therapy of screaming
Primal therapy, introduced by Dr. Arthur Janov in 1970 in his book “The Primal Scream,” helps liberate many such pent-up feelings. The patient ... «Daily Northwestern, Mar 15»
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Revisiting Tears for Fears for the anniversary of 'Songs from the Big …
They were, in their earliest days, fascinated by the idea of primal therapy – a psychological treatment developed in the 1970s by psychiatrist ... «The Michigan Daily, Feb 15»
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Bad decisions keep hurting boxing
I get as infuriated as anybody when a fighter gets shafted, and spend a lot of time screaming at the television, a form of primal therapy that ... «ESPN, Dec 14»
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Tears for Fears' Roland Orzabal on the re-release of Songs From …
That was Tears For Fears as inspired by Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy and all of his books." American psychotherapist Janov gained huge ... «Western Daily Press, Dec 14»
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Tears for Fears: Songs From the Big Chair
... seeming intensity) was inspired by the primal therapy psychologist Arthur Janov, made famous by a patient of his, one John Winston Lennon. «PopMatters, Nov 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Primal therapy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/primal-therapy>. Apr 2024 ».
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