He developed Primal therapy, in which clients are encouraged to re-live and express what Janov considers repressed feelings. Janov's patients included John Lennon and Yoko Ono. [5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Janov
Clinical Psychology, in the US, had it's biggest growth period in the 1960 and 70's, when Janov was not only influential, but his ideas practiced. His basic feelings in those days were to recreate or face the phobia, fear or a conflicting element to what was/is classified as normal. Fear flying in airplanes, go flying. Primal simply takes the idea, that childhood events could play a role in adult behavior or again fears of what otherwise is normal.
Primal therapy became very influential during a brief period in the early 1970s, after the publication of Janov's first book, The Primal Scream. It inspired hundreds of spin-off clinics worldwide, and served as an inspiration for many popular cultural icons like John Lennon and Tears for Fears.[citation needed]
In fairness, parts of the theory, according to this article did fall into obscurity, for lack of supporting statistics (arguable IMO) but note HE and OTHERS did continue to PRACTICE and other developments of it, which in many cases IMO became mainstream, before his reign, during and after. I do recall articles written in the 70's and 80's, praising the work, generally along the lines of raising children and he has written several books. For the record, he is now 85 years old and probably not that involved, but his work goes on.
Since that time, primal therapy has fallen into obscurity, in part because Janov never produced the outcomes studies necessary to demonstrate its effectiveness. Nevertheless, Janov and others continue to advocate and practice the therapy or various developments of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_therapy
inow; The Doc was banned from 'Hypo' shortly after you left and assumed you knew and your same arguments persisted there. Anyway your attempt to notify Administration here, that a poster was trolling, having been banned (is that a REASON to ban here) or the authenticity of Dr. Javon and his theory on 'General Discussion' IMO was totally out of line.
Doc; First let me thank you for your service with TWO TOURS, as a Marine Rifleman and especially in Viet Nam. I was already to old and had three kids to think about, but had served in the AF in the 50's. Second, it's always amazed me how many guys, fondly remember their DAD's, your by no means alone there. Third; Your interest, even to an obsession is justified and I assumed your linking the VA Hospital experience to physiological problems. I am sure you already know how many folks had and have problems, that did serve in VN.
All that said, I have to be honest. We're now talking near 40 years ago and no telling how many what should be good memories you could recall, other than those in VN. Sometimes, when a person has had problems forgetting a troubling past it's best to just take things into their own hands and move on. You probably don't have many years left, from your time in VN and no doubt the Drugs I KNOW have been administered to Veterans of that war and it's best you start trying to enjoy what's left. If your like the many I already know, your probably on some kind of disability and being shoved around with out any remedy in sight, other than your dream of a magic cure, which is just not going to happen. I'll add in this case, trying to cope with inow, or posters like him and his attitudes is not going to be good for you. However, I'll also add this; If you branch off onto other subjects or read other issues he post in, you'll find several you would agree with. He also has a serious medical problem, that has and will continue to cause problems, probably to a relatively early death.
Since this is in 'General Discussion', if you want some opinions on your specific case, maybe some ideas from posters or advice from others with medical problems, elaborate briefly on you current status and see what develops.