All Fell Down

"Primal therapy was an offshoot of cultural movements that began coalescing in the 1960s and surfaced in the 1970s. 'There was also a belief that repressive strictures of society were holding people back. Hence a therapy that was to loosen the repression would somehow cure mental illness. So it fit perfectly,' John C. Norcross, distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, tells Fox."

Jason Daley at Smithsonian writes about the death and life of Arthur Janov.