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primal therapy
noun Psychiatry.
a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
Origin:
1970–75, Americanism
1970–75, Americanism
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| primal therapy | |
| —n | |
| psychol primal scream therapy, Also called: scream therapy a form of psychotherapy in which patients are encouraged to scream abusively about their parents and agonizingly about their own suffering in infancy | |
| [C20: from the book The Primal Scream (1970) by Arthur Janov, US psychologist, who originated the treatment] | |
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primal therapy n.
A method of psychotherapy that treats neurosis by teaching patients to relive early traumatic experiences and to express their feelings through angry screaming and other verbal or physical acts of aggression.
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