Scream therapy

Scream Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses screaming as a therapeutic tool. In many cases the term is mistakenly used in reference to Primal Therapy.

There was never any such thing as "Primal Scream Therapy", as some refer to Primal Therapy which was developed by Dr. Arthur Janov and first brought to the awareness of the public in his book entitled The Primal Scream (1970). In many subsequent books, Janov has distanced Primal Therapy from "scream" therapies. Some twenty years after The Primal Scream, he wrote:

A Scream away from Happiness, by Daniel Casriel, M.D (1972), introduced a scream therapy which was quite different from Primal Therapy. Casriel was aware of Janov's work and pointed out the differences, the main ones being the heavy emphasis in Casriel's therapy on screaming and the use of a group setting rather than the mixture of individual and group therapy used by Janov.

Books
Complete list of books by Arthur Janov
 * Casriel, D. A Scream away from Happiness (1972) ISBN 0-448-11761-4
 * Janov, A. The Primal Scream (1970) ISBN 0-349-11829-9
 * Janov, A. The New Primal Scream (1992) ISBN 0-942103-23-8