Arthur Janov

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Dr. Arthur Janov (born August 21, 1924) is an American psychologist and psychotherapist, and the creator of Primal therapy.

Born in Los Angeles, he directs a Primal Center in Venice, California, USA. He is the author of twelve books, including The Primal Scream, which claimed that mental illness could be eliminated by a therapy that consists of repeatedly descending into, feeling, and expressing long-repressed childhood pain. His writings were the inspiration for the names of British pop bands Tears For Fears and Primal Scream. An actual experience of the therapy inspired John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1970 Plastic Ono Band albums.

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The Primal Scream (1970) ISBN 0-349-11829-9 - revised(1999)
The Anatomy of Mental Illness (1971)
Primal Man: The new consciousness (1976) ISBN 0-690-01015-X
The Primal Revolution (1972) ISBN 0-671-21641-4
The Feeling Child (1973) ISBN 0-349-11832-9
Prisoners of Pain (1980) ISBN 0-385-15791-6
Imprints: The Lifelong Effects of the Birth Experience (1984) ISBN 0-399-51086-9
New Primal Scream: Primal Therapy 20 Years on (1992) ISBN 0-942103-23-8
Why You Get Sick and How You Get Well: The Healing Power of Feelings (1996) ISBN 0-7871-0685-2
The Biology of Love (2000) ISBN 1-57392-829-1
Grand Delusions -- Psychotherapies Without Feeling (2005); unpublished manuscript available at the Primal Center's website [1]
Sexualité et subconscient : Perversions et déviances de la libido (2006) ISBN 2-268-05720-8 (original english manuscript titled Sex and the Subconscious unpublished as of May 2006)