Why You Get Sick, How You Get Well: How Feelings Affect Your Health

by Arthur Janov

Book Overview

Explores the underlying unconscious forces that wear the human body down and cause illness, revealing the sources of self-destructive behavior and including special chapters on sex, suicide,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787106852
• ISBN13: 9780787106850
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Dove Books
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Read it and Weep!

Nearly 30 years after writing _The Primal Scream_, Janov is still trying valiantly to educate us about neurosis and its cure. In this, his most recent book, he continues to teach us how repressed feelings act as endogenous poison eating away at our thoughts, words and deeds. He also explains that we evolved with an innate healing mechanism that can cure the neurosis resulting from such repression. Unfortunately, Janov's Primal Therapy is no longer so popular, but it remains probably the most well-researched and effective psychotherapeutic modality in history. Read this and every out-of-print book of Janov's you can get your hands on if you're interested in a natural alternative to the prescription drug addiction that currently passes for effective treatment of mental illness.

Convincing exponent of Primal Therapy with few followers?

Arthur Janov's book is well written, convincing and logical although if you have read his other books from 'Primal Scream' onwards the message is very much the same: that feeling can make life easier & longer. The message is also a rather lone one though after so many years; I would like to see other books on the subject by other authors