primal therapy

primal therapy

n. Psychology

A method of therapy thought to treat emotional problems by encouraging patients to relive traumatic experiences and to express feelings through screaming and other verbal or physical acts of aggression. Also called primal scream therapy.

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primal therapy

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(Psychology) Psychol 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

[from the book The Primal Scream (1970) by Arthur Janov, US psychologist, who originated the treatment]