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Primal Therapy And The Three Levels Of Consciousness
Arthur Janov developed his idea of three-leveled consciousness from Paul MacLean’s model of the triune brain. The latter argued that our...
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jimpullaro3
- Nov 13, 2022
- 4 min
Primal Therapy: Why We Must “Feel to Heal”
In my book Fear Memory Integration I include a discussion of experiments that Joseph LeDoux conducted regarding fear memory retrieval and...
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jimpullaro3
- Oct 28, 2022
- 4 min
Primal Therapy, Repression, and Quantum Theory.
The willful practice of staying with a feeling “is the central and crucial mechanism in all feeling-oriented regressive psychotherapy”. ...
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jimpullaro3
- Oct 19, 2022
- 3 min
Primal Therapy and Repression…What Erik Hoffman Found.
My background blog about Erik Hoffman: https://www.primaltherapyandnaturalhealth.com/post/primal-therapy-and-erik-hoffmann Hoffman:...
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jimpullaro3
- Apr 15, 2022
- 1 min
Primal Therapy and Dissociation
The chemical definition of dissociation is the breaking apart of a molecule into its basic elements. H20, for example, can be...
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jimpullaro3
- Apr 4, 2022
- 4 min
Primal Therapy and Erik Hoffmann
Doctor Erik Hoffmann is a man who "became insatiably curious to understand how brain functions are related to consciousness". He...
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jimpullaro3
- Mar 30, 2022
- 6 min
Primal Therapy And Humane Care in Mental Health
Source document: Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(12), 6625; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126625 Radosław Stupak and...
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jimpullaro3
- Nov 23, 2021
- 4 min
Primal Therapy, Trauma, and Memory
What is trauma? Peter Levine defines trauma as being any event that is perceived (consciously or unconsciously) as being life threatening....
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jimpullaro3
- Nov 17, 2021
- 4 min
Primal Therapy and the Split Self
Janov used the terms ‘real self’, unreal self’, and the ‘split’ in his discussions about the development of neurosis. What do these...
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jimpullaro3
- Nov 6, 2021
- 2 min
Primal Therapy, Repression, and Elnora Van Winkle
The Imprint is a collection of remembered unconscious survival reactions. When these reactions are environmentally cued, we become...
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jimpullaro3
- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
Primal Therapy, Alice Miller, and Antonio Damasio
Psychotherapist Alice Miller says that “It is not the trauma itself that is the source of illness, but the unconscious, repressed,...
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jimpullaro3
- Oct 19, 2021
- 3 min
Primal Therapy and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Joseph LeDoux is an American neuroscientist whose research is primarily focused on survival circuits, including their impacts on emotions...
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jimpullaro3
- Oct 10, 2021
- 2 min
Primal Therapy and the Medical Model
Psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz is a researcher in the field of neuroplasticity and its application to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). ...
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jimpullaro3
- Oct 6, 2021
- 4 min
Primal Therapy and Awareness
Effective primal therapy requires learning how to… “Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. ...
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jimpullaro3
- Sep 28, 2021
- 4 min
Primal Therapy and Repression
Repression, at its most fundamental level seems electromagnetic in nature. This has been my experience: Early on in my primal training I...
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jimpullaro3
- Sep 19, 2021
- 4 min
Primal Therapy and Context Re-instatement
The Fear Memory Integration Hypothesis Chronic distress is not pathological. It does NOT signify that “something is wrong with you”. ...
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jimpullaro3
- Sep 6, 2021
- 1 min
Primal Therapy and Feeling Intensification
Learning how to give a voice to what we are feeling, and then using that voice to repeat or fine tune the original voice, usually...
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jimpullaro3
- Sep 6, 2021
- 2 min
Primal Therapy and Movement
Just as we encouraged our client to give a voice to the feelings that were happening within…the things that are unseen, we can also give...
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jimpullaro3
- Sep 6, 2021
- 2 min
Primal Therapy and the Use of Words
Vereshack reminds us that both social and therapeutic conversation can be a defense against feelings. Words (or, intellectualism) are...
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jimpullaro3
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Primal Therapy and Embodied Distress
Janov taught us that the anxiety neuroses are caused by “imprinted pain”. I think that the term ‘imprinted distress’ makes the primal...
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