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Friday. May 28, 1971

THE SUN C-3

Scream Your Troubles Away With Arthur Janov

By MARTIN KASINDORF

; Newsweek Feature Service j LOS ANGELES - The annals of psychiatry have been filled with dramatic new treatments for which extravagant claims have been made. But few treatments have been more dramatic, more highly touted or quicker to catch on than one that has gaudily burst upon the American scene this year. ,'It is called "primal therapy," it is the discovery of a brash, natty Hollywood psychologist named Arthur Janov, and it consists of having patients roll on the floor, cry, suck their thumbs and otherwise re-enact critical moments of their childhood. In strictly fashionable terms, primal therapy is clearly this year's rage. ExBeatle John Lennon has taken it up and sings it's message in his new album. Actor James Earl Jones claims it cured him of smoking, hemorrhoids and other problems. Pianist Roger Williams says it got rid of his cold hands and, on a recent television show, even listed the 43-year-old Janov as one of history's five greatest men (along with Socrates, Galileo, Freud and Darwin). Janov and his wife, Vivian, moreover, have been unabashedly acting a s supersalesmen for the therapy. "It is the most important discovery of the 20th Know What's Cooking (Continued From C 1) for meats. "Nuts are used a lot, cheese and eggs, rice, grains, legumes and our commercial products," provide the meat substitutes, Mrs. Smith explained. Mrs. Smith, elected last month as president of the auxiliary will assume duties as leader of the group of nearly 3,500 doctors' wives June 1. This is the first time the Loma Linda Chapter has had one of its members as national president. Monthly brunch meetings are held by each chapter and three national luncheons are held per year. Mrs. Smith's husband is a vascular , surgeon at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Their only child is Patti, who attends a Seventh-day Adventist academy. The auxiliary president will be busy during the next few months getting acquainted with all her duties and making plans for future activities. With the auxiliary headquarters in Los Angeles, she will be spending considerable time there. Her first national event will be a meeting in October at the Beverly Hilton ft lot el. Scheduled as the speaker is Lord David Harlech of England whose name was once linked romantically to Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Mrs. Smith, who has a degree in home economics, is especially interested at the present time in the sale of the ..cook books. ;; They are available for $4 each from "the pharmacy or general store in Loma "Linda or from the LLU Women's Aux

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century," Janov says flatly. He claims that primal therapy has cured alcoholism, homosexuality, smoking, psoriasis, ulcers, bad skin, menstrual cramps and drug addiction. But astonishing as these claims are, the results of primal therapy are even more startling. A former Janov patient was recently describing his personal experiences in it to an audience of 300 psychiatrists and psychologists in Beverly Hills when a member of the audience called out, "But how do you feel?" "I don't feel very good," the young man said. I'm sad." Whereupon he put his head on the table and started to cry, beat the table and thrash his legs wildly. "Mommy," he screamed, "you promised you wouldn't!" He kept it up for five minutes while, throughout the audience, other primal patients literally took up the cry. "We're used to seeing some strange things," one psychiatrist said later, "but

that night was one of the weirdest I can remember." Not surprisingly, a , number o f psychiatrists dismiss primal therapy as just another psychiatric fad, like the orgone box. Dr. Judd Marmor of Los Angeles, for instance, calls Janov's sweeping claims "hogwash." "This is one of the hoariest myths in psychotherapy," he says. "It was first suggested by Freud more than 75 years ago and then discarded by him. Its popular appeal rests on its promise of a quick, dramatic cure." Primal therapy's basic principle is that all neuroses and most physical ills are created by childhood frustrations; the child buries the painful feelings that result, creating crippling "tensions" that he can't release. To get rid of these tensions, Janov's patients go through what he calls a "catastrophic" reliving of the childhood traumas. In his West Hollywood office, they screech and writhe while six

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psychologists comfort them. And with the trauma thus re-experienced, the theory goes, their tensions are banished. A native of Los Angeles and a graduate of UCLA, Janov stumbled across primal therapy in 1967 when a young patient in conventional therapy suddenly began yelling convulsively and Janriv urged him to call out for his parents. "I made it," the young man said afterward. "I can feel." During the next 18 months, Janov led 63 patients through a similar experience, and in his book "The Primal Scream" he claims a 100 per cent cure rate. He now gets 100 requests for treatment; a day despite a price tag of $1,650 for three weeks of intensive therapy, plus $20 for each group session thereafter. "The greatest hoax of the 20th century is psychiatry," Janov says belligerently. "In the future, there will be no need for a field called psychology. And we would need only 20 per cent of the present medical profession since 80 per cent of all ailments would be cured by primal therapy." He is even more critical of his fellow professionals. "I think some of the sickest, most closed-off people in the country today are the shrinks," he says. Still, Janov is bitterly resentful of any criticism of his own methods by psychiatrists. He claims the profession is prejudiced against him and that the press lies about him. His papers, in fact, have been repeatedly turned down by professional journals. He delivered one paper, brashly titled "Revolution in Psychotherapy," to a group of Los

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Angeles psychologists and 15 of them walked out. Since then, he has concentrated on such forums as "The Dick Cavett Show." And he has, in the meantime, attempted to support his claims with data. Three of his associates, two of whom have also been his patients, have pre-

spnled figures showing the primal pressure, pulse, temperature and brainwave frequencies. But basically, Janov considers primal therapy self explanatory and he fully expects it to outlast its detractors. "Primal therapy is THE therapy," he said, firmly. "Nothing can stop it."

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