Dr. Arthur Janov's book The Primal Scream burst upon the public's consciousness in the 1970s and went on to become one of the most popular mental health books ever written. Now Dr. Janov has penned a book that promises to become an even greater hit - The Janov Solution. In it, Dr. Janov, the originator of Primal Therapy, presents brilliant new psychotherapeutic techniques for curing depression, thus also reducing or eliminating the need for anti-depressant medications, electroshock, and even brain surgery. The Janov Solution explains how Primal Therapy can help patients safely access the deepest levels of the brain, relive the primal experiences that drive their unwanted behavior, and, in doing so, conquer depression for good. A groundbreaking book with huge potential for curing the millions who suffer from this often deadly disease.

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"God is a concept by which we measure our pain." - John Lennon

"In the past, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University and a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia. Also, although I was a clinical associate at SFU when I originally gave you the info about my affiliations, I gave that up about three years ago, so that is also in the past. At this point I am exclusively in private practice." - DR. Geoffrey Carr

"Dr. Janov is the discoverer of a remarkable feeling therapy that taps into the feeling side of the brain. I will join the men and women from 21st century science and take part in this remarkable therapy, demonstrating the persistence and integrity of Dr. Janov." - Dr. David A. Goodman, director of Newport Neuroscience Center, San Marcos, California USA

"Dr. Arthur Janov's work is potentially amongst the most important of any research in any field over the past century. If further substantiated it offers more possibility for relief from suffering in life than any other treatment or endeavor." - Dr. Geoffrey Carr, past visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (Canada), an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University, and presently a Clinical Associate of Simon Fraser.

Q: What is Primal Therapy and how does it differ from other therapies?

A: Primal Therapy is a process of reliving very early lack of love and trauma. It liberates the emotional pain stored inside of us and frees us to no longer be driven by unconscious forces.

Q: What is a feeling?

A: There are feeling centers in the brain and sit below the cognitive level of thoughts and insights. They can only be accessed by a feeling process that bypasses the top cognitive level. This makes for feeling beings who have a sense of themselves, an openness to experience and a joy of life.

Q: No one else has written about reliving the past. Why is that so important in therapy?

A: The past is imprinted and stored in us. Primal healing demonstrates how that is done and why those imprints last a lifetime. They drive our behavior our relationships, our dreams and our interests. They cannot be ignored in psychotherapy. The brain systems that govern early experience are different from the adult one. We have found a way to help patients return to their early lives to root out and change the imprints that drive them.

Q: What is the unconscious and what is in it?

A: There is no id, demons nor dark forces in the unconscious. I have opened up individuals to their deepest brain levels and all we have ever found our memories that go back further than we ever imagined, back to before birth. It is a storehouse of our lives, the music we dance to without ever hearing a sound. It contains the silent screams that dog so many people.

Q: You have stated that Primal Therapy combines biology, neurology and psychology. How does that work?

A: Primal Healing is the first book to combine all three into a unified theory and therapy that is radical and revolutionary, changing the art of psychotherapy into a predictable science. It is evolution in reverse, starting with the present and dipping deeper and deeper into the unconscious-into the lowest brain levels. No other therapy offers that kind of access.

Q: Why are feelings the royal road to the unconscious?

A: It is repressed feelings that drive most of us, those feelings we could never express as children. They are still there begging to come out. We let them out in a stable, methodical ordered way that never traumatizes the patient. We take current feelings and use them as a vehicle to travel to the past.

Q: You say that feelings can be studied and measured how do you do that? How can the world of feelings become a science?

A: We cannot measure pain as such but we measure the processing of pain and its companion repression. We have developed a grid of repression that includes vital signs, stress hormone levels, brain processes-amplitude and frequency-and serotonin levels. There are predictable changes in our therapy as explained in primal healing.

Q: How does your therapy change your brain and biologic system?

A: We have done four brainwave studies and found a change in the balance of the brain, in frequency, how fast are the waves, and the amplitude-how many overal neurons are recruited in the service of repression. The left and right brains are much more in harmony-the systems is in balance.

Q: You say that feeling therapy negates cognitive therapy and psychoanalysis. Why is the thinking mind so opposed to the feeling one?

A: You cannot get there from here: no level of brain tissue can do the work of other levels. They need to be dealt with on their level. The insight-cognitive level believe that you can get there from here but that denies basic brain science. Feelings came long before thoughts in our evolution. We need to respect evolution and not defy it.

Q: How do you know that pain is behind neurosis and mental illness?

A: We have seen thousands of patients over the decades from over twenty countries and have found pain in them all. If we do not delve deep of course we can never find it. Once we do plunge deep into the unconscious the pain is there in all of is glory and agony. It is a great relief to get it out of the system at last.

Q: What does your therapy consist of: you say that primal therapy is a new paradigm in the field of psychology-a revolution. Why do you think that is?

A: If you understand evolution you know that different memories are coded and stored on different levels of the brain. Our therapy is evolution in reverse. We descend slowly back into history until we reach the lowest depths. There we find memories that are unimaginable in other approaches. There is no more 50 minute hour-patients stay as long as they need to every day. There is no 10 patients a stay. Each therapist takes one new patient per day for the three week intensive therapy. The room is padded and semi-dark and soundproof. The approach is almost mathematic in is rigor.