primal therapy Definition
☆ primal therapy
noun
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.
Etymology: after the book The Primal Scream (1970) by A. Janov, U.S. psychologist
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