Abandonment of Primal Therapy
Shortly thereafter, the therapists at the Center for Feeling Therapy had a "major ideological shift... Arthur Janov's theory...of childhood trauma was abandoned." This shift was caused by the realization that patients who had defected with them from Janov's institute "had been faking their primals." Indeed, one of the Center for Feeling therapists, Jerry Binder, claimed that "a lot of what had been said was a lie" for his testimonial in Janov's book. As a result, Joe and Riggs came to believe that primals as Janov described them "didn't even exist" and that Janov's cure was "a cruel hoax." Soon after, the Center for Feeling therapists replaced Janov's formulation with their own ideas emphasizing "present-life feelings." Riggs instituted groups in which there would be "no primaling or trips to the past." Soon after, the "break with Janov was triumphantly complete."
But the "biggest change was in the practice of Feeling Therapy itself... started getting wild... Every group, there was something new." Many of the original patients who'd come for Primal Therapy started drifting away: " started finding the new program a bit much. They'd come to the Center looking...to exorcise the pain of the past. They were not looking to have their lives examined...One by one, they began to drift away."
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