primal scream therapy

primal scream therapy
noun or primal therapy
: psychotherapy in which the patient recalls and reenacts a particularly disturbing past experience usually occurring early in life and expresses normally repressed anger or frustration especially through spontaneous and unrestrained screams, hysteria, or violence

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primal therapy or primal scream therapy noun
Therapy in which patients are encouraged to scream as they re-experience the agonies of birth, the frustrations of infancy and the traumas of childhood (see also ↑rebirthing under ↑rebirth)
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Main Entry:primal

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primal therapy or primal scream therapy,
a form of group psychotherapy in which members reenact experiences of early childhood to release their repressed anger or pain: »

The main technique that primal therapy uses is to persuade the patient to become a baby (New Scientist).


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