Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 12/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 12/12: 12. ON RELIVING: DEFEATING THE FEELING OF DEFEAT There is scarcely a professional among us who believes in the absolute necessity of reli...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: More on the Meaning of the Act-Out

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: More on the Meaning of the Act-Out: I have written about how we, most of us, act out our unfulfilled needs and feelings. We act out because those needs remain active throughou...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 11/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 11/12: 11. TREATING DEPRESSION: MEDICATION VS. PSYCHOTHERAPY The biggest argument about depression nowadays is how to subdue it and bring it und...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: More on Leaky Gates

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: More on Leaky Gates: Remember how I have been writing about leaky gates and what it does to us. Well, it looks as though the gates really are leaky, so writes S...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 10/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 10/12: 10. THE BIRTH OF SUICIDE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported an alarming rise in the number of suicides amon...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Does Plenty of Infancy and Childhood Love Undo Ear...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Does Plenty of Infancy and Childhood Love Undo Ear...: I have written about the irreversibility of early trauma, gestation and birth. I stand by that but there are mitigating factors, namely ple...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 9/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 9/12: 9. DEPRESSION IS REPRESSION ELEVATED TO A HIGHER LEVEL “Repression” of pain on various levels can begin in the womb at any point during t...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 9/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 9/12: 9. DEPRESSION IS REPRESSION ELEVATED TO A HIGHER LEVEL “Repression” of pain on various levels can begin in the womb at any point during t...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 8/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 8/12: 8. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF HOPELESSNESS There is an understanding within the psychological profession that pain killers help suppress depressio...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Importance of the Primal Frame of Reference...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Importance of the Primal Frame of Reference...: There is a recent survey of coffee consumption (Read Rebecca Coffey—no joke, in Discover Magazine, April 2013 http://discovermagazine.com/2...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 7/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 7/12: 7. THE IMPORTANCE OF TELOMERES Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Apel in Nature (11 Oct. 2012). (Blackburn & Epel, 2012) reported on a ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 6/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 6/12: 6. THE NATURE OF THE IMPRINT It seems that new research provides critical evidence on epigenetics, and how imprints through methylation ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 6/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 6/12: 6. THE NATURE OF THE IMPRINT It seems that new research provides critical evidence on epigenetics, and how imprints through methylation ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What is Primal Therapy?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What is Primal Therapy?: I decided to write this because recently there has been an influx of patients from so-called primal therapists, and without exception they ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 5/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 5/12: 5. THE KEY ROLE OF EPIGENETICS Although genetics may be partly responsible for depression in rare cases, by and large it is early life ex...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What is Primal Therapy?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What is Primal Therapy?: I decided to write this because recently there has been an influx of patients from so-called primal therapists, and without exception they ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 4/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 4/12: 4. WHAT IS DEPRESSION? Throughout the ages, writers and thinkers have come up with poetic sobriquets to describe depression. Hippocrates c...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 4/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 4/12: 4. WHAT IS DEPRESSION? Throughout the ages, writers and thinkers have come up with poetic sobriquets to describe depression. Hippocrates c...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 3/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 3/12: 3. THE THREE LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS To understand how it is possible to trace the causes of a lifelong illness – and its cure – to the ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 3/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 3/12: 3. THE THREE LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS To understand how it is possible to trace the causes of a lifelong illness – and its cure – to the ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: How Womb Life Shapes Us

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: How Womb Life Shapes Us:  There is a recent experiment that throws light on this subject. Babies can learn a musical melody while still in the womb.  They recognize...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 2/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 2/12: 2. DEPRESSION AND THE PRIMAL PARADIGM Let me begin by proffering my definition of depression, and how it is understood within the paradig...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 1/12

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Mystery Known as Depression, Part 1/12: This is the first of a series of articles I wrote on Depression. The whole article has been published by ANS: The Journal for NeuroCognitive...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Alzheimer’s Disease: What Causes It And How Do We ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Alzheimer’s Disease: What Causes It And How Do We ...: There is some new work by the Rush University Medical Center (October 2013) that begins to inform us about Alzheimer’s disease. They say t...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Feeling Is the Connexion

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Feeling Is the Connexion: I often state what connection is, and one of my staff offered a slight modification and I think he may be right.  I say that connection...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Information Is Not Knowledge

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Information Is Not Knowledge: One of my colleagues, a brilliant neuroscientist has a great deal of information about the brain but not knowledge of it; that is, no deep u...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Where Do Anxiety and Panic Attacks Come From?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Where Do Anxiety and Panic Attacks Come From?: For years I have been discussing limbic fear versus brainstem terror; that is, as we go deeper in the brain the responses become  more exag...