Why You Get Sick and How You Get Well: The Healing Power of Feelings

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Summary: Convincing exponent of Primal Therapy with few followers?
Review: Arthur Janov's book is well written, convincing and logical although if you have read his other books from 'Primal Scream' onwards the message is very much the same: that feeling can make life easier & longer. The message is also a rather lone one though after so many years; I would like to see other books on the subject by other authors

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Summary: Read it and Weep!
Review: Nearly 30 years after writing _The Primal Scream_, Janov is still trying valiantly to educate us about neurosis and its cure. In this, his most recent book, he continues to teach us how repressed feelings act as endogenous poison eating away at our thoughts, words and deeds. He also explains that we evolved with an innate healing mechanism that can cure the neurosis resulting from such repression. Unfortunately, Janov's Primal Therapy is no longer so popular, but it remains probably the most well-researched and effective psychotherapeutic modality in history. Read this and every out-of-print book of Janov's you can get your hands on if you're interested in a natural alternative to the prescription drug addiction that currently passes for effective treatment of mental illness.

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Summary: Janov is completely right, again!
Review: This is an incredible book, the research results are fascinating. Again and again, since 1967 Janov has consistentently demonstrated cure of neurosis (and even psychosis) by the resolution of Primal Pain. It can be the only logical way to do psychotherapy now, but still it is ignored, perhaps because we all naturally want to avoid pain. To me this is where the new science is, this is where we should put our research efforts and where we should fund therapist training. Once one understands the importance of Janov's unmistakable discoveries, it truely is mindblowing that he has been ignored. The truth is revolutionary, and that may explain the resistance. It is hard to understand why Janov's name and ideas are not more widely discussed in the wide range of psychological literature. Quite simply, he is right, and it is important because it can save the next generation of crippling emotional and physical pain. Please read it and recommend it to others.