Arthur Janov Biography

Arthur Janov was a psychologist and psychotherapist who created primal therapy, a treatment for mental illness centered on repeatedly descending into, feeling, and expressing long-repressed childhood pain. His groundbreaking work emerged from a profound therapeutic encounter in 1967, where he witnessed and later articulated the concept of Primal Pain. Janov developed a therapeutic approach that encourages clients to relive and vocalize deeply buried emotions, offering a path to healing through cathartic expression.