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 ...