Scream therapy, more technically known as primal therapy, burst onto the self-help scene in the 1970s. Being an adult these days often comes with sky-high levels of burnout and round-the-clock anxiety ...

Arthur Janov, the founder of primal scream therapy who died in October 2017 was the last of the “big personalities” of the psychotherapies and anti-psychotherapies that have been identified with the ...

On a recent Wednesday morning, my daily breathwork practice was interrupted by aggressive knocking on the front door of my beach bungalow, nestled behind the Venice Pier. I answered it and saw my ...

Five women travel to a house in the middle of the desert to partake in some primal therapy. Unbeknownst to them, they are being stalked by a demon-worshiping cult looking for someone to sacrifice. Now ...

In the late nineteen-sixties, the clinical psychologist Arthur Janov conceived of a new form of treatment for his patients. It was called primal therapy, and it was based on the notion that most adult ...

Arthur Janov, the psychologist who created, practiced and preached primal therapy, a sensation of the 1970s in which patients were coached to let out sobs or screams as they relived childhood trauma ...

In the spring of 1970, the publishing company G.P. Putnam’s Sons was trying to drum up interest in a book that promoted a radical new form of therapy. Entitled The Primal Scream: Primal Therapy, The ...

One of John Lennon‘s albums was inspired by him screaming as a form of therapy. Subsequently, Yoko Ono discussed why this form of therapy appealed to John. Notably, pop star Christina Aguilera covered ...

Harmon tells SheKnows the idea came about through conversations with women in her clinical practice early on during the pandemic, as many shared the common feelings they’d been holding in: intense ...

LOS ANGELES — Arthur Janov, a psychotherapist whose “primal therapy” had celebrities screaming to release their childhood traumas and spawned a best-selling book in the 1970s, has died. He was 93.