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A remarkable follow-up to the international bestselling The Primal Scream, groundbreaking psychologist Arthur Janov cites in this examination hundreds of studies showing how experience in the womb and at birth have enduring life consequences, laying the foundation in later life for anxiety and depressive disorders, heart attacks, and even cancer. Janov explains how during pregnancy and the first years of life, events are imprinted in the brain that affect how aggressive or passive people will become, how despairing or optimistic they will be, and even how long they will live. Destined to have as profound an impact on psychotherapy as The Primal Scream, this book compels doctors and pregnant women to consider the lasting impact of events that occur during pregnancy.
- Sales Rank: #1239850 in Books
- Published on: 2011-12-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.10" w x 6.00" l, 1.40 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 290 pages
Review
“Lucidly, the pioneer of primal therapy provides the scientific rationale for treatments that take us through our original, nonverbal memories—to essential depths of experience that the superficial cognitive-behavioral modalities currently in fashion cannot possibly touch, let alone transform.” —Gabor Maté, MD, author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
“A thrilling journey of discovery . . . Janov writes like no one else on the human mind—engaging, brilliant, passionate, and honest. He is the best writer today on what makes us human—he shows us how the mind works, how it goes wrong, and how to put it right.” —Paul Thompson, PhD, professor of neurology, UCLA School of Medicine
“An expansive analysis! This book attempts to explain the impact of critical developmental windows in the past, implores us to improve the lives of pregnant women in the present, and has implications for understanding our children, ourselves, and our collective future.” —K.J.S. Anand, MBBS, DPhil, FAACP, FCCM, FRCPCH, professor of pediatrics, anesthesiology, anatomy, and neurobiology, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare System
“Dr. Janov’s essential insight—that our earliest experiences strongly influence later well-being—is no longer in doubt. Thanks to advances in neuroscience, immunology, and epigenetics, we can now see some of the mechanisms of action at the heart of these developmental processes. His long-held belief that the brain, human development, and psychological well-being need to be studied in the context of evolution—from the brain stem up—now lies at the heart of the integration of neuroscience and psychotherapy.” —Lou Cozolino, PsyD, professor of psychology, Pepperdine University
“Life Before Birth is a valuable guide to creating healthier babies.” —Paula Thomson, PsyD, associate professor, California State University, and professor emeritus, York University
“Dr. Janov has crafted a compelling and prophetic opus that could rightly dictate PhD theses topics for decades to come.” —Ed Park, MD, MPH, founder, Recharge Biomedical Clinic
“Life Before Birth is a manifesto that provides a robust argument for increasing attention to the neuro-mental lives of fetuses and infants, and the widespread ramifications on mental health if we do not.” —Jaak Panksepp, PhD, Bailey Endowed Chair of Animal Well Being Science, Washington State University, and author, Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
About the Author
Arthur Janov, PhD, is one of the world’s leading psychologists and the founder and director of the Primal Center in Los Angeles. The originator of primal therapy, he has treated thousands of patients while undertaking extensive research in support of his thesis that both physical and psychic ailments can be linked to early traumas. He has lectured at the Royal College of Medicine in London, Hunter College in New York, and Karolinska Medical and Research Center in Stockholm, and his work has been the subject of documentaries in England, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States. He is the author of 10 books, including The Primal Scream, which have been translated into 24 languages. He lives in Los Angeles.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Five Star Material in a Three Star Presentation
By J. Stensrude
Janov's Primal Therapy, the darling of the New Age Movement in the 1970s, was embraced by meaning-of-life chasers (including such as John Lennon, James Earl Jones and other celebrities) and scoffed at by his professional colleagues (with not just a little name-calling on both sides). Now, 44 years after his first client screamed and writhed his way to mental health -- and several books later -- Janov again writes about the fruits of his several thousand case studies.
The first half of Life Before Birth reads like a third draft with three more drafts to go. It suffers from repetition -- Janov's need to restate every few pages that our prenatal experience is the most important predictor of our future behavior. And every third or fourth time that he mentions that, he feels compelled to repeat that primal therapy is the answer to mental-health problems -- not a band aid, but a cure, the therapy that will replace all other therapies.
The second half of the book is more organized and an easier read. It is also populated with the true-to-life examples that bring these sorts of books alive to the reader with a limited knowledge of biology, biochemistry, and scientific lingo.
Format criticism aside, the stats are impressive. For each of the thousands of therapy sessions over the past 44 years, Janov and his colleagues have recorded vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure) before and after each therapy session. They report that, somewhere around the end of the first year of therapy, the vitals begin to show improvement, and with a few more years of therapy the improvement becomes remarkable.
Improvement after a year and more is hardly the "quick fix" that Janov's early critics claimed he was promising. He did, though, promise 100% success. No such brash claims appear in this recent work, though he continues to defend his therapeutic method as the only one with potential to cure mental illness. Others, he claims (and he particularly picks on behavioral therapies), simply teach people successful ways to tolerate their discomfort and bury their negative feelings.
His criticism of all talk therapies is that they "address the wrong brain." Focus on the "left frontal, thinking brain" is self limiting, he says. Without addressing wordless regions in the right brain, where feelings are stored, no true progress can be made.
Our lives are imprinted with our experiences from the moment of conception, he explains. Our mothers' moods and thoughts generate biochemical reactions within her body that are transmitted to us in the womb. If mother is anxious, distressed, unhappy, we are too. It all makes perfectly good sense. The tough part is learning to identify the chemicals, the brain patterns, and the resulting behaviors from prenatal life through life in the outside world and all the way to our death beds.
Janov has developed a sense of it through 44 years of practice and a lot of observation. What he knows intuitively from his experience is harder to prove with hard science -- but he has made some headway in that regard. After all this hard work, though, he must still say, "All of this is still very much theoretical work."
Life Before Birth is intended for nonprofessionals, but necessarily dips its toes into some heavy scientific and medical jargon. It is relatively easy to mumble your way through the big words here and there, and a lot of meaning can be extracted without understanding all the biology and biochemistry that he carefully explains. But without these explanatory facts, his claims would be casual conjecture.
Janov relates many of the studies that support his own research, some of which have been made possible by new technologies in brain scanning. For me, these are some of the more interesting aspects of the book. I do believe that Janov's primal therapy is a good addition to the mental-health professional's tool kit, but I am less convinced that it will or should replace all other therapies, mainly, perhaps, because people will continue to seek out processes that they find appealing and comforting. Many, many people would rather live a life covered with bandages than undergo major surgery.
Two important points were not addressed. Even if Janov's therapy proves to be the only one that cures mental illness (and some chronic physical ones as well), it would not be available to most people: hundreds of hours of therapy at a cost of many thousands of dollars is hardly a global solution.
Janov closes with a list of cautions for prospective mothers, the things they can do to provide their child, in utero, with the best possible opportunity for a long and healthy life. This leads to the second point, the notion that providing the best possible prenatal environment for future generations goes beyond the actions of individual mothers. There are prenatal-care programs for women who cannot afford private medical care. How can these community initiatives be augmented? What can the community as a whole do to support the health of future generations?
Though so terribly plodding in spots (particularly at the beginning), Life Before Birth is a worthwhile read filled with good information and food for thought.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
What if Janov is right?
By Juhapekka Tukiainen
I don't want to disparage the earlier lukewarm and wary reviews. It is certainly prudent to keep a critical distance from an offbeat and unpopular theory. However, it is also prudent to consider the possibility that the theory is correct.
If Arthur Janov indeed proves to be right, then we face a paradigm shift that the world has not seen in a century.
Janov's ideas are not compatible with the current psychological paradigm that is supported by hundreds of thousands of earnest, serious and hardworking professionals and academics. You might say that no, it is not possible that so many people could be wrong and just one ragged outsider could be right, but it has happened many, many times before.
My own take is that the balance has already changed, but the change has happened in a way that has been difficult to notice. Janov started out with 15 minutes of fame back in the 1970s, but then he was sidetracked as a "pop psychologist" for 30 some years. Everybody got used to this situation, so when new research results started to come in after 2000, the world has been slow to make the connection to this seemingly forgotten theory.
At the moment I wouldn't bet against Janov. I am a journalist with a big, sensitive nose for news and I smell a change in the wind. There might come a day when cocky young people will look at us and laugh: what were you thinking back then? Why didn't you see what was so very obvious?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A thought provoking read on how life in the womb shapes us
By Yelda Basar Moers
How does womb life affect a fetus? Does it shape his infancy? What about the rest of his life? Can a mother affect her pregnancy adversely by her mood, behavior or actions?
Arthur Janov, in his new book, Life Before Birth: The Hidden Script That Rules Our Lives, would go as far as to say that pregnancy and the first few months of life can determine whether someone will develop depression, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, or cancer. Janov, who is a leading psychologist and bestselling author, integrates neuroscience, psychotherapy, clinical observation and research in his narrative.
I was seven months pregnant when assigned to review this book, eager to begin, and hanging on every word.
Aside from his innovative gestational trauma therapy (he suggests a psychotherapy that accesses womb-life to relive early traumatic experiences), Janov tells us a lot about how a mother's behavior during pregnancy shapes her unborn child. If a mother experiences significant anxiety during pregnancy, her child may be at risk for a higher output of the stress hormone cortisol. Maternal stress can have disastrous effects on a fetus, affecting oxygen levels, which can lead to placental failure. Janov also focuses on epigenetics, how genes are affected by intrauterine life. Apparently, genes can be changed through experiences the fetus undergoes while in the womb. The fetus may decide whether to express or repress certain genes.
I agree with Janov that stress is an anathema to pregnancy, but I have issues with some of his assertions. For instance, he cites one researcher who claims that the fetus is so incredibly vulnerable and fragile that even subtle perturbations in the mother's mood can have measurable affects on the fetus that last for years. He also suggests that the low level of serotonin found in SIDS babies may be the result of previous traumas in the womb and at birth. What is the mother to do? Live in a bubble? How can a mother control subtle perturbations in her mood?
Continually, Janov stresses that a mother's actions while carrying her infant have a lifelong effect. I found this to be his mission far more than spreading the message of his new therapy. Babies in the womb feel their mother's anxiety as early as four months gestation, he states, so pregnant women should watch their stress levels, avoiding tasks or projects that could exacerbate it.
It's hard to believe that the root of all of our problems come from what happened in the womb. I am not entirely convinced of his argument. But I do have to say that our society makes pregnancy seem like it's not a special condition. Doctors tell pregnant women that they can do anything, run, work fulltime, travel. So I do champion Janov for elucidating that stress does affect the fetus and that a mother has a responsibility to her unborn child to avoid it.
Life Before Birth is a thought-provoking read. Janov is obviously well informed and knowledgeable, but the book itself suffers from too many generalizations, poor structural editing and organization. Chapters don't progress from one to another. I think many writers of these types of book forget that both fiction and nonfiction books need a strong narrative to pull the reader thorough.
My upshot: It's worth a read, but you may abandon along the way. One with a serious interest may hang on.
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