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primal scream therapy

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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.
primal therapist n.
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Main Entry: primal scream therapy
Pronunciation: -'skrEm-
Function: noun
: psychotherapy in which the patient recalls and reenacts a particularly disturbingpast experience usually occurring early in life and expresses normally repressed anger or frustration especially through spontaneous and unrestrained screams, hysteria, or violence called alsoprimal scream, primal therapy
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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