Over 50 years ago, Dr. Arthur Janov created Primal Therapy. At the time, he was operating in an experimental and contested mental health environment. Ex-patient groups, whose members referred to ...

In 2017, Kanye West came home to find motivational speaker Tony Robbins in his living room. West had been struggling with his mental health and his then-wife Kim Kardashian West (you probably haven’t ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the months before John Lennon and Yoko Ono entered Abbey Road Studios in London to start work on what would become the album “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” the couple were renting a home on Nimes ...

Over fifty years ago, Dr. Arthur Janov created Primal Therapy. At the time, he was operating in an experimental and contested mental health environment. Ex-patient groups, whose members referred to ...