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noun Psychiatry.
a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
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Origin of primal therapy
An Americanism dating back to 1970–75
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primal therapy
noun
psychol a form of psychotherapy in which patients are encouraged to scream abusively about their parents and agonizingly about their own suffering in infancyAlso called: primal scream therapy, scream therapy
Word Origin for primal therapy
C20: from the book The Primal Scream (1970) by Arthur Janov, US psychologist, who originated the treatment
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