The Feeling Child. [Paperback]

Arthur Janov (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper) (March 1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671220225
• ISBN-13: 978-0671220228
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,462,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr. Arthur Janov is one of the world's leading psychologists and author of 11 books, including the international bestseller, The Primal Scream and his newest book, Primal Healing, published in November 2006. He is the Founder and Director of the Primal Center in Santa Monica, California. He has been elected to the Academic Hall of Fame of Claremont Graduate University.

Dr. Janov received his B.A. and M.S.W. in psychiatric social work from the University of California, Los Angeles and his Ph.D. in psychology from Claremont Graduate School. Before turning to Primal Therapy, he practiced conventional psychotherapy in his native California. He did an internship at the Hacker Psychiatric Clinic in Beverly Hills, worked for the Veterans' Administration at Brentwood Neuro-psychiatric Hospital and was in private practice for 1952 till 1967. He was also on the staff of the Psychiatric Department at Los Angeles Children's Hospital where he was involved in developing their psychosomatic unit.

The course of Dr. Janov's professional life changed in a single day in the mid-1960's with the discovery of Primal Pain. During a therapy session, he heard (as he describes it), "an eerie scream welling up from the depths of a young man who was lying on the floor". He came to believe that this scream was the product of some unconscious, intangible wound that the patient was unable to resolve. Since then, Dr. Janov has devoted his professional life to the investigation of that underlying pain and the development of a precise, scientific therapy that could mitigate its lifelong effects.

Dr. Janov has been conducting revolutionary research in the field of psychotherapy for more than three decades. As the originator of Primal Therapy, he has treated thousands of patients and conducted extensive research to support his thesis that both physical and psychic ailments can be linked to early trauma. He has concluded that patients can dramatically reduce such debilitating medical problems as depression, anxiety, insomnia, alcoholism, drug addiction, heart disease and many other serious diseases. In 1970 he introduced his radical new approach to therapy to the general public in his first book, The Primal Scream, which became a best-seller and has since sold more than a million copies worldwide.

In the last 30 years Primal Therapy has established itself as the only therapy producing deep changes in a host of psychosomatic symptoms and psychological problems. As Director and Supervisor of Research with the Primal Foundation Laboratory, Dr. Janov was the first psychologist to submit his results to scientific scrutiny. Studies at Rutgers, the University of Copenhagen, St. Bartholomew's Hospital in England and the University of California at Los Angeles have all supported his theory that Primal Therapy can produce measurable positive effects on the function of the human brain and body.

Dr. Janov and his wife, Dr. France D. Janov, co-director at the Primal Center, have lectured worldwide on Primal Theory and Primal Therapy, including to the Royal College of Medicine, London, England; Hunter College, New York; Karolinska Medical and Research Center, Stockholm, Sweden. His work has also been the subject of a PBS special in the United States and of documentaries in Germany, England, France and Sweden.

The latest research conducted at Dr. Janov's Primal Center on the effects of Primal Therapy on the brain was performed by Dr. Erik Hoffman, former Professor of Neurophysiology at Copenhagen University. This research has shown very clear changes in the brain as a result of feeling.

Dr. Janov has authored twelve books. His latest is "The Janov Solution, Lifting Depression through Primal Therapy- published September 2007. These books have been translated into twenty-four languages, throughout the world.

In 1989 in an effort to expand the Primal network, Dr. Janov established Dr. Janov's Primal Center in Santa Monica, California with his wife, Dr. France Janov.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I wish everyone would read this before they have children!, August 27, 2010

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Bernadette Wulf - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Feeling Child. (Paperback)

Though some of this information is a bit outdated, the basic idea that children are born with physical needs that must be met in order for them to develop into healthy and balanced adults is timeless. I loved reading the case studies and client's observations about how their childhood experiences affected their adult lives.

I read this book many years ago, before I had children of my own and it unquestionably helped me be a better mother and not to pass on some of the negative patterns with which I grew up. I got even more out of it on my recent second reading.

I haven't had enough experience with Primal Therapy to know whether it works or not, but I do know that preventing trauma and neurosis in the first place will go a long way toward healing society as a whole.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How our inner child needs to feel loved, March 24, 2010

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Michael B. Sprague "micheal sunanda" (Eugene, OR) - See all my reviews
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I read 'Feeling child' in mid '70s while living with communal family we shared our primal feelings openly & loved children deeper than we were touched or nursed growing up. The great relief & growing awareness we got from reliving & releasing childhood pain proved that we carry our inner child feelings around lifelong unless we express them totally here now. I read Janov 'Primal Scream' in 1971 helped me deeply healing my birth trama & 20 years of family pain by releasing it safely at home. "The Feeling Child" maybe the deepest child self healing psychology book on therapy about emotions, bonding with babies & self healing. Many babies do naturally cry or scream out pain, if allowed & not smothered by pacifying them with things. But thats scary 'do it yourself' therapy adults fear like colic they blame on' gas pain', not birth trama pain or deep body need to cuddle with parents loving hearts. But real human pain's been ignored & denied by therapists since Freud, Pavlov & Skinner. Even the humanistic therapy folks don't like screaming out our childhood pain, fears & neglected need for self healing. They promote the 'false memory syndrome' to explain memories of birth trama & child abuse denying the national secret epidemic of hidden forgotten childhood pain & fear, plaguing millions of modern people of all ages. All childhood experience stays in unconscious realms.
Janov is still doing Primal Scream therapy, i read & reviewed his recent 'Primal Healing' book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Scientific Childcare, October 17, 2010

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John DeLullo (VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Feeling Child (Hardcover)

Despite the age of this book the information it contains is still very relevant. Finally a book on how to raise children from the child's point of view.This book explains how the needs of the child are paramount and must be adhered to in order to avoid psychological trauma to the child which results in behavioral, as well as physical problems, later in life. The book explains how parents are often so cut off from their own feelings that they overlook the needs of their children despite the best of intentions.Includes background information on how traumatic events in childbirth and throughout childhood are stored neurologically to produce the psychobiological condition of neurosis. Simple to read yet very scientific.However, even though the book contains background information on the formation of neurosis, I would highly recommend reading one of his other books in addition to this one in order to get a better understanding of why it is so important to raise children from the child's perspective.