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...When he undertook primal scream therapy under Dr. Arthur Janov in 1970, Lennon instinctively took painful revelations and turned them into cathartic art. Lennon had been abandoned by his father before birth, and then again when he was 5. His mother gave him up to be raised by her sister. Lennon lost his mother again when he was 18, when she was run over by a drunken policeman. Twelve years later, Lennon philosophized it simply and heartbreakingly. "Mother... you had me - but I never had you. I needed you - but you didn't need...
...Janov-Litvack...
However, the comparison of encounter groups with Arthur Janov's primal therapy is completely out of order: The primal patient is directed to specific feelings and is aided by the therapist to integrate the experience, so as not to become subject to unconnected, dangerous, psychologically damaging feelings...
...approach, similar to Arthur Janov's "primal scream" therapy, is to teach members of his groups "to grab hold of a feeling-any feeling-and express it in a series of yells, screams and moans which increase in volume to almost unbearable intensity." Overwrought, the patient is then soothed by the rest of his group, as well as by Casriel, if he is present, or by one of the ex-patients who run most of Casriel's groups. No effort is made to understand the emotions that have so painfully -and dangerously-been aroused...
...fitting that Janov wrote his first book in 1970, when the fervor for ill-conceived psychological non-insights was already dying down. Bookshelves may one day be less crowded with self-indulgent speculation on psychology. But whether or not Janov turns out to be a major figure in the field, he is no doubt far down the right track...