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Arthur Janov

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Arthur Janov (Template:IPAc-en; August 21, 1924Template:SndsOctober 1, 2017), also known as Art Janov,<ref name="TRS"/> was an American psychologist, psychotherapist, and writer. He gained notability as the creator of primal therapy, a treatment for mental illness that involves repeatedly descending into, feeling, and experiencing long-repressed childhood pain.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Janov first directed a psychotherapy institute called the Primal Institute on North Almont Dr. in West Hollywood, California and from 1980 at the Janov Primal Center at 1205 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, in Venice, Los Angeles and latterly on Ashland Avenue in Santa Monica, California.

Janov was the author of many books, most notably The Primal Scream (1970),<ref name="TRS">Template:Cite magazine</ref> as well as The Biology of Love and Life Before Birth: The Hidden Script That Rules our Lives.

Early lifeEdit

Arthur Janov was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Boyle Heights, a low income neighborhood east of Downtown L.A., populated mainly by Jews, Latinos, and Slavic immigrants.<ref name="Bio"/> Janov was the son of two Russian-Jewish immigrants, Conrad Janov and Anne Coretsky-Janov.<ref name="Bio2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He 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 in 1960.<ref name="NYTobit"/>

CareerEdit

Janov originally practiced conventional psychotherapy in his native California.<ref name="Bio"/> He did an internship at the Hacker Psychiatric Clinic in Beverly Hills, worked for the Veterans' Administration at Brentwood Neuropsychiatric Hospital and was in private practice from 1952 until his death in 2017.<ref name="Bio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>Psychologists on the March, page 251</ref>

In Janov's view, the repressed pain of traumatic childhood experiences eventually produces an emotionally damaged adult.<ref name="People"/> These experiences include not only obvious physical and psychological injuries, but also subtle slights like parents' failure to comfort a child.<ref name="People">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Janov wrote that his professional life changed in a single day in 1967 with the discovery of what he called "Primal Pain".<ref>Back-to-Back Fires Damage Analyst's Primal Institute Template:Webarchive, L.A. Times, 1989</ref><ref> 'Primal therapy' this year's rage Boca Raton News, June 16, 1971</ref> During a therapy session, Janov heard what he describes as, "an eerie scream welling up from the depths of a young man lying on the floor".<ref name="TPS">Template:Cite book</ref> He developed primal therapy, in which clients are encouraged to re-live and express what Janov considered repressed memories and feelings.<ref name="Malibu">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Janov's primal therapy became a cultural phenomenon in the 1970s and 1980s along with his work The Primal Scream (1970).<ref name="Career">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="TRS"/> In response to criticism claiming that primal therapy is discredited and harmful, Janov said in 2016: "We have 50 years of published material to the contrary. We have several scientific articles in the journal Activitas Nervosa Superior, plus other journals. We do serious science and leave the nonsense to others".<ref name="Career"/>

The idea of The Primal Scream came when one of his patients told of a theatrical performance at Conway Hall, London, in which Raphael Montañez Ortiz dressed in diapers shouted "Mommy! Daddy! Mommy! Daddy!" throughout the act, then vomited, distributing plastic bags to the spectators and later asking them to vomit as well.<ref name="TRS"/> Janov was fascinated by this and asked his patient to cry for his own "mommy" and "daddy".<ref name="TRS"/>

However, Janov's primal therapy was the source of controversy, with allegations that Janov used the treatment as a "cash-grab scheme".<ref name="NYTobit">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In response, Janov stated that "We take no salaries and no profits and have not in years. We have paid several hundred thousand dollars for research to maintain our scientific integrity. We fund therapy for those who cannot afford it".<ref name="Career"/>

Influence on popular musicEdit

Janov's patients included the musicians John Lennon and Yoko Ono.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="DNobit"/> Janov's ideas had a significant impact on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Lennon's first solo album after The Beatles, which centers themes of parental abandonment and psychological suffering and served to popularize primal scream therapy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Two important bands formed in the early 1980s, Tears for Fears and Primal Scream, took their names from Janov's work.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The influence on Tears for Fears is strongest on their first album The Hurting (including "Mad World"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and "Ideas as Opiates," which is named for a chapter in Janov's Prisoners of Pain) and in their No. 1 single "Shout" from Songs from the Big Chair.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The band eventually met Janov in 1986 and became disillusioned with him and his work.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Janov was first married to Vivian Glickstein in 1949, but they separated in 1975 and divorced in 1980 so that he could remarry.<ref name="Malibu"/><ref name="Bio"/> He married France Daunic four months later in 1980 and was still married to her at the time of his death.<ref name="NYTobit"/><ref name="Bio"/> Janov had two children from his first marriage – Rick Janov, a primal therapist, and Ellen Janov, a singer and actress who died in 1976 – and an adopted son, Xavier, from his second marriage.<ref name="NYTobit"/>

On October 1, 2017, Janov died in his sleep at the age of 93 of respiratory arrest complicated by a stroke.<ref name="COD">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="DNobit">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For several years, Janov suffered from a throat disease which limited his ability to speak.<ref name="Career"/> At the time of his death, he was living in Malibu, California.<ref name="Malibu"/><ref name="NYTobit"/>

WorksEdit

Janov in mediaEdit

  • The Inner Revolution (1971 / 85 min) A personal account of primal therapy by Gil Toff.
  • Primal Therapy: In Search of the Real You (1976 / 19 min)) A Canadian documentary.
  • Primalterapi: vintern 1977 (1978 / 130 min) A Swedish 3-part documentary by Gerard Röhl.
  • Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy (2018 / 45 min) An associative view by Ulf Kjell Gür.

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