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1.0 out of 5 starsafter 5 years of Primal Therapy my speech had actually gotten worse. Now I understand that Janov in the Primal ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2015
I read the Primal Scream and The Feeling Child over 30 years ago and was completely convinced that this was the answer, that more importantly, no person would make the claims that the Arthur Janov was making without them being true.
So I found someone nearby where I lived who ran a Primal Institute and did Primal Therapy for 5 years religiously 3 times a week after having a 3 week intensive. The problem I had gone there for was for stuttering and in the Primal Scream there were references to where a person was cured of his stuttering and indications by Janov that it could be cured by Primal Therapy and that any other approach was destined to fail.
As the years went by and I read more and more of Janov's books as they came out in the 1970s and 1980s there were more indications by Janov that he could cure stuttering. Well, after 5 years of Primal Therapy my speech had actually gotten worse. Now I understand that Janov in the Primal Scream and other books indicates that he was/is the only therapist in the world who can do proper Primal Therapy and I accepted this. Perhaps this is why my stuttering was not cured or helped in any way when I did Primal Therapy at a different location. But in a recent series of e-mails 2007 between myself and Arthur Janov's Primal Center I was told, to my astonishment, that not only did they not have much experience with stuttering but that they never indicated that they could cure it. I wrote back and indicated that I could show him where in his books he could find this statements about curing stuttering and where in his book, the "bible" of Primal Therapy, Primal Man, where it was stated that "primal therapy cures stuttering". The Janovs ignored this piece of information and continued to state that they never said they could cure stuttering in their e-mails back to me. They asked me what I wanted of them and I said to put a statement in this upcoming book "Primal Healing" to tell people that, unfortunately, Primal Therapy does not cure stuttering. If you check Primal Healing you will see that they didn't do it. I leave it up to the reader of this review as to their own conclusions. The real question now becomes: what else did they say they could cure and can not?
