A form of psychotherapy based upon the theory of
Arthur Janov. The procedure consists basically of an intense therapeutic
interaction between client and therapist focused on a single goal, for the
client to recognize and then express his other deepest emotions toward the
parent, to make contact with the primal trauma. Typically this contact is
manifested as a gut-tearing, infantile, agonized primal scream. The therapy
tends to be rather single-minded in practice, with many aspects -- problems of
daily life, dreams, fantasy, transference, etc. -- being neglected which has
subjected the approach to
considerable
criticism from other quarters.