Oh, how I wished I had never seen this (only just now) and have to show it.
The saddest part of it all is that the "facilitator" of this process is an actual Ph.d. and in his delusion he states as so:
Show your pain, live your pain, release your pain. Therapeutic progress can only be made through direct emotional experience. Talking about the problem is useless, your cortex, or higher reasoning area of the brain has no ability to affect change.
Dr. Gravely titles this video, "Primal Scream Therapy but not too Loud." I can't say in less than a volume how just that title is sooooo anti-primal, so neurotic, repressed. I get this thought of someone a person who wants to break free of the parental mistakes and parental repressions and lack of love, but wants to do it quietly and in a "appropriate" middle-class way so as not to upset the parents or lose their fake love by seeming to be too "street" and not middle-class repressed anymore, as the parents have raised them to be. AAAAAARRRREGggh!
And no, those last letters had nothing to do with Primal Therapy! This research is putting my head into the twilight zone. I don't know how much more I can take of watching these sad, earnest hurting people acting like those pigeons without a clue as to how to get the pellet.
I would like to say to Arthur Janov right now: Art, you've discovered something incredible. I've always admired your courage. If it wasn't for you, I would probably not be alive today. I certainly wouldn't be having the joy, love, and pure happiness that I often have (along with the pain, disappointments, and challenges, too, of course). I am fully in my body and unafraid. Look what a gift you've given to people. How can you stand by and not speak out about these pathetic attempts to get what you once gave some of us? And how can you stay stuck in a paradigm that people who have primalled more than you -- according to your own admission -- like myself, have concluded joyfully is grander than you ever imagined?
That's all I can say for now.
In the upcoming video, notice the girl. Notice how she is doing nothing more than moving her arms around -- this could be some wacky exercise at a fitness center or an actor's group warm-up. Why someone would put the label and the hope that comes with it of "therapy" on what she is doing is just not right to her. It's a bad thing to do, in my opinion.
Well, with a heavy heart, here is your moment of ..... "Zen":
Primal Scream Therapy but not too Loud
