Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Treating Depression with LSD: Cure or Hallucinatio...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Treating Depression with LSD: Cure or Hallucinatio...: I read a recent article in the New York Times about new research in treating depression with hallucinogenic agents (see http://www.nytimes...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Treating Depression with LSD: Cure or Hallucinatio...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Treating Depression with LSD: Cure or Hallucinatio...: In our research we had much more evidence of how the liberated pain militated towards the last cerebral defense; the neocortex to concoct...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: If You Value Privacy?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: If You Value Privacy?: If you truly value privacy do not ever join the Navy. I will tell you why. 3000 of us slept head to feet every night.  If anyone snored th...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Precious Advice

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Precious Advice: Here is the response I sometimes get from so-called well wishers:   “Hey, time has passed.   Get over it and get on with your life.   Blah...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: If You Value Privacy?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: If You Value Privacy?: If you truly value privacy do not ever join the Navy. I will tell you why. 3000 of us slept head to feet every night.  If anyone snored th...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: About What Embeds Neurosis in the System

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: About What Embeds Neurosis in the System:  I have been wondering why it is that battle in combat did not seem to make me neurotic while seemingly innocuous events during home life ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: About What Embeds Neurosis in the System

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: About What Embeds Neurosis in the System:  I have been wondering why it is that battle in combat did not seem to make me neurotic while seemingly innocuous events during home life ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On How the Needs Change in Life

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On How the Needs Change in Life: I have often described the timetable of needs; that a baby must be touched immediately after birth;  to be touched for the first time at a...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On Why we Take Drugs and What Kind?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On Why we Take Drugs and What Kind?: We are doing staff meeting today where three different beginning patients were each taking a different pain killer. And each takes a pill ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Elusive Truth

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Elusive Truth: I often write that the simple truth is revolutionary.  But where is that truth?  How do we recognize it when we find it?  It is often not...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: It Is Not Only Food that We Ingest

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: It Is Not Only Food that We Ingest: Anything that goes into a carrying mother’s system will affect the baby.   Medication, above all. And we may not be aware of it, but the b...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...:         What has this to do with self-destruction, as some therapies describe the suicide attempt? I was discussing the difference between ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...:         What has this to do with self-destruction, as some therapies describe the suicide attempt? I was discussing the difference between ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...: It is difficult, perhaps, to believe that birth problems can give rise to suicidal tendencies years later. This is because we are not used...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...: It is difficult, perhaps, to believe that birth problems can give rise to suicidal tendencies years later. This is because we are not used...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...: As I have written "à maintes reprises", many times over, we respond primarily and firstly to apparent problems in the present, ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless Repression, Despair and the ...: There is only one way to stop the suffering, and that is to revisit the imprint and relive the pain. Until then, we cannot know the real...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless, Repression, Despair and the ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide is Painless, Repression, Despair and the ...: A recent federal government study shows that suicide in the United States has become epidemic, hitting an alarming 30-year high (see htt...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Beauty of Primal Therapy

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Beauty of Primal Therapy: (This is a modified (and better!) version of the previous post "Why is Primal Therapy Beautiful") The Beauty of Primal Therapy...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Birth, Anoxia, Shallow Breathing and Cancer

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Birth, Anoxia, Shallow Breathing and Cancer: I am reporting here on a hypothesis regarding cancer.  I have been wondering about the mechanism that causes an imprint of damage at the ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling.....

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling.....:   We Are Specialists of Joy, Not Pain  Primal Therapy is no quick fix. We are attempting to redo someone’s entire life. It will be done ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Nature of Tears: Restoring Natural Human Respo...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Nature of Tears: Restoring Natural Human Respo...: Primal Therapy is not magic. All we do is restore a natural function, one that has been deformed and deregulated so that natural human re...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Nature of Tears: Restoring Natural Human Respo...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Nature of Tears: Restoring Natural Human Respo...: Primal Therapy is not magic. All we do is restore a natural function, one that has been deformed and deregulated so that natural human re...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Anthony Weiner Sexting Case:When a Picture Is ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Anthony Weiner Sexting Case:When a Picture Is ...: Believe it or not, this is the third time I have written about the lurid sex scandal involving disgraced politician Anthony Weiner, a form...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...:  Awareness is not healing; consciousness is. True conscious- awareness means feelings, and therefore humanity. The conscious person does n...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...:   Awareness V. Consciousness  The leitmotif of every intellectual therapy is that awareness helps us make progress. I’ll grant that awar...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On What Help Us Love

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On What Help Us Love: There is the obvious: being loved from the start. There is the less obvious, abstracting the chemical elements that are part of the abili...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...: By definition, abreaction lacks connection, which is the sine qua non of Primal Therapy. Without connection there is neither healing nor cu...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...:  The idea is to remain in the feeling zone, the only zone where connection can take place. Outside of the Primal Zone, no integration is po...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference between Abreaction and Feeling (...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference between Abreaction and Feeling (...: One clear example of dangerous feeling therapy is rebirthing – driving patients way too deep way too soon. Reliving birth in the first week...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...: This is exactly what happens with mock primal therapy. The correct roots have been evaded while driving the patient into false byways. The...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On the Difference Between Abreaction and Feeling (...:  A Syndrome of Failure  When abreaction becomes an embedded groove, it’s like a hellish path to nowhere. It is a defense disguised as a ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Ideas That Evolve Out of Feelings

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Ideas That Evolve Out of Feelings:   I was wondering how it came to be that psychotherapy became a thought therapy and that mental illness became a belief and perception diso...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On What Helps Us Love

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: On What Helps Us Love: There is the obvious: being loved from the start. There is the less obvious, abstracting the chemical elements that are part of the abili...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Twice More on Addiction

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Twice More on Addiction: So the New York Times is again running pieces about addiction with the same old tired results;  conclusion  “We do need to rein this in“. ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Primal Pain Endures

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Primal Pain Endures: New information again seems to document that pain memory lasts a long time.  (see Kings College London.  "Cells Carry Memory of Injury...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Don't We Know We Are in Pain?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Don't We Know We Are in Pain?: First of all, it is a pain that doesn’t hurt. At least you don’t KNOW it is there because it is a long way from feeling and knowing,  both ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Where and What is Neurosis?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Where and What is Neurosis?:  I will imagine that most of you will think of strange ideas and beliefs.  But neurosis, a high level of unresolved pain, is everywhere.  ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Primal Pain Endures

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Primal Pain Endures: New information again seems to document that pain memory lasts a long time.  (see https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/1605121249...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Didn't I Know?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Didn't I Know?: When I was in analysis; oh yes I did that.  I was a wreck after the war and yet all we did was analyze my dreams.  And then later someone ...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Pollyanna Effect of Looking for the Positive

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Pollyanna Effect of Looking for the Positive: This article first published on this blog in August 2010, but I think it is very important. So I decided to publish it again. art Inner...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Pollyanna Effect of Looking for the Positive

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Pollyanna Effect of Looking for the Positive: This article first published on this blog in August 2010, but I think it is very important. So I decided to publish it again. art Inner...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Un Unsung Hero in Our Midst

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Un Unsung Hero in Our Midst: I published this article in July of 2015, but since my wife France is launching the Legacy program, I would like to remind us all about her...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why We Need a Therapy of Feelings

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why We Need a Therapy of Feelings: Because that is what is lacking in every neurotic I treat.  And the damage they do to their children is ineffable. They cannot feel it beca...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What Happens When You Can't Feel? How Fascism Gets...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What Happens When You Can't Feel? How Fascism Gets...: I  will use myself as an example. I worked in the meat-packing house when I was young. And once  a month we  played “the greased pig. “  W...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What Lingers On (Part 1/2)

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What Lingers On (Part 1/2): I am in my nineties now and many of you have asked for more of my feelings; since I had another Primal last night I will tell you how it ha...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Join the Epigenetic Clock: How Long Will I Live?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Join the Epigenetic Clock: How Long Will I Live?: We all know that early lack of love, traumas will cause illness and shorten  life span.   But now we have a more precise way to measure it...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Epigenetics and Primal Therapy: The Cure for Neuro...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Epigenetics and Primal Therapy: The Cure for Neuro...: When is that point?  We cannot change personality so long as the imprint remains to drive us; and the little love we get later on may not...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Epigenetics and Primal Therapy: The Cure for Neuro...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Epigenetics and Primal Therapy: The Cure for Neuro...: (After a long pause, I will be publishing the remaining articles about Epigenetics and Primal Therapy over the next few days.) How Early I...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide and Success

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Suicide and Success: There have been a number of people  who have committed suicide who seemed at the pinnacle of  success.   So what is going on? And most of u...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Still More on the Act-out

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Still More on the Act-out: If I told you that the way you breathe is an act-out, you might scoff, so let me explain.  Act-outs mean that you are acting out unconsciou...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: How Can Psychology Ignore Neurology?

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: How Can Psychology Ignore Neurology?: I don’t mean that neurology should drive psychology but that brain science has so much to offer therapy.  We ignore new neurologic findings...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What a Waste

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What a Waste: I was feeling the other night and was left with a unfinished sense that I was not done.   I felt the misery of my life but that was not it;...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Even Your Blood Remembers

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Even Your Blood Remembers: Lest you think that only our brain remembers, it turns out that almost every part of us, every cell also remembers. And that memory stays...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What a Waste

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: What a Waste: I was feeling the other night and was left with a unfinished sense that I was not done.   I felt the misery of my life but that was not it;...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Painful Memories Continue to Do Harm

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: Why Painful Memories Continue to Do Harm: In Primal Therapy our patients go back and experience damage from decades before.  That implies that the hurt is a long-term, almost never-...

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Complexity of Primal Therapy

Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Complexity of Primal Therapy: To some it seems that Primal Therapy is simple and all you need to do is help people scream; about as far away from the truth as possible. ...