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☆ primal therapy

a treatment of mental disorder in which the patient, often in group sessions, is induced to reenact his or her infancy and to express emotions violently in screams, shouts, etc.
also primal scream (therapy)

Etymology: after the book The Primal Scream (1970) by A. Janov, U.S. psychologist

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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