Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On Drugs Again

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On Drugs Again: Drugs do not cause addiction;  addiction causes drugs.  If only we could keep this straight. If we only deal with the drug problem we miss ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Barren, Sterile Life

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Barren, Sterile Life: I am going to wax egocentric and use me as an example of what can go wrong in life.  I have pondered how is it that a child can live 20 yea...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: It's Never Enough

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: It's Never Enough: What is wrong with wanting more?  Nothing if you really want more of what you need, and not what you want.  What’s the difference, you say?...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Here Is What Is So Strange About Us Humans

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Here Is What Is So Strange About Us Humans: A lot of you are writing in about justice and seeking justice in your lives, just as I, when younger, read police stories where there was a...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Act-Outs Are a Funny Thing

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Act-Outs Are a Funny Thing:  For years I was drawn to crime stories in the newspapers.  Ordinarily, we would not consider  that an act-out but it was, as so many small...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: How Do You Know What Is In Your Unconscious?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: How Do You Know What Is In Your Unconscious?: Let’s start with the easy stuff first:  nightmares.    They are defined as something panicky,  anxiety producing, terror, proximity to deat...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Is Drug Addiction a Disease?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Is Drug Addiction a Disease?: No, but we often treated as a disease.  So what’s the disease?  The changes in our neurobiology that cry out for the disease.   What?  Ad...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Am I Banging On About Womb Life?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Am I Banging On About Womb Life?: I am sometimes accused of too much emphasis on the trauma of birth and/or life experience in the womb. So let me explain why this is so.  M...