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Feeling, like all elements in Janov's picture of human behavior, involves not only mental awareness but the biological processes accompanying or underlying that awareness. Feeling is sensation plus a correct awareness of the origin of that sensation. Our stomachs may tighten if we need to cry. We feel that need if we are aware both of muscles tightening and of the act we need to perform. If a mother tells her son, "Big boys don't cry," for enough years, she may cause his psychophysiological system to block the connection between stomach-tightening and the need...
...JANOV'S PICTURE of human psychology appears relatively straight-forward. People are creatures with their species's characteristic needs. "Need" is a "total physiologic state," the physical demand for certain requirements and the mental ramifications of our biological functions. He says...
...Janov makes considerable strides beyond liberal psychotherapy, although sometimes he seems unclear as to the theoretical nature of the advance. In practical terms, he is satisfied by his cures. But his attempts to explain why are often agonizingly circular: I'm right because it works; it works because I'm right. By understanding the nature of Janov's stumbling advance, it is easier to articulate the shortcomings of his theory. Most of these weaknesses appear more explicitly in The Primal Revolution, a new and less formally structured book written to answer questions Janov believes The Primal Scream leaves unanswered...
...Janov's theory of needs is part of another alternative tradition, maintaining that the indiscriminate attempt to pursue wants stems only from people's inability to fulfill genuine needs...
...have described Marx's view to reveal what seems to be a clear connection between the process of social alienation he describes and the origins of neurosis as outlined in Janov. Both Janov and Freud suggest, as Freud puts...