Primal therapy
Primal therapy is a technique of psychotherapy developed in the United States by Arthur Janov in which the therapist first makes the patient feel intensely miserable, then encourages him or her to relive miserable feelings experienced in childhood but never expressed. When the patient can let go with a 'primal scream' these emotions are supposedly released and the way made clear for a healthy adult development.
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