Published: Aug. 09, 2011
Words: 109,212 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452479545

Short description

Renowned psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Arthur Janov (Primal Scream) explores how trauma and lack of love prevent millions of people from finding sexual pleasure in life. Replete with case histories addressing a multitude of sexual difficulties, Janov explains how neurology and sexual history can combine to create the perfect storm of sexual dysfunction.

Extended description

Billions of people are suffering from sexual dysfunction the world over. Some want to have sex, but can't. Some don't want to have sex, and don't care about it. Some can hardly think about anything else. Others are addicted to sex and can't stop themselves. The list of sexual disorders is endless.

In his book SEX & THE SUBCONSCIOUS: PERVERSIONS AND DIVERSIONS IN THE REALM OF THE LIBIDO, bestselling author and renowned psychologist Dr. Arthur Janov explains that imprints from early childhood trauma and lack of love in early life are not only stored in the body systems, but also damage areas of the brain and nervous system that are key to sexual health.

For a sexually healthy person, sex involves sensations, feeling, attachments, and emotional closeness. It involves experiencing passion and pleasure and sharing love. A sexually healthy person has full access to their feelings. (Read more) Billions of people are suffering from sexual dysfunction the world over. Some want to have sex, but can't. Some don't want to have sex, and don't care about it. Some can hardly think about anything else. Others are addicted to sex and can't stop themselves. The list of sexual disorders is endless.

In his book SEX & THE SUBCONSCIOUS: PERVERSIONS AND DIVERSIONS IN THE REALM OF THE LIBIDO, bestselling author and renowned psychologist Dr. Arthur Janov explains that imprints from early childhood trauma and lack of love in early life are not only stored in the body systems, but also damage areas of the brain and nervous system that are key to sexual health.

For a sexually healthy person, sex involves sensations, feeling, attachments, and emotional closeness. It involves experiencing passion and pleasure and sharing love. A sexually healthy person has full access to their feelings.

Janov says for many, repression, in all its tender mercy, has swooped down and dulled our awareness so we aren't even aware there is a problem, our experience of sex is dulled. And the more we repress and suppress our feelings, the more our sex drive is diminished. If we want to recapture our passion we need to discover at what point and where reactivity stopped or diminished; we need to pinpoint the trauma(s) that caused us to shut down. Only then will we regain our passion.

SEX & THE SUBCONSCIOUS: PERVERSIONS AND DIVERSIONS IN THE REALM OF THE LIBIDO delves into neuroscience and the body systems to explain how they can combine with a person's history to create the perfect storm of sexual dysfunction. Janov's book also contains more than 20 case studies of people suffering sexual dysfunction who discuss their problems and the traumatic events at the root of their dysfunction, such as incest, early abuse, abandonment, child birth, and more.

Janov also takes on the nature vs. nurture argument surrounding homosexuality, ultimately making a case for both arguments.

Janov argues that something so pleasurable need not be so problematic and painful and explains that if we attempt to treat a sexual problem or disorder apart from the rest of us--through prescription drugs and/or repression and suppression, for example--we have a prescription for failure. He says sex is embedded into our bodies and our physiology; sex and sexual dysfunction has to be seen in the context of the whole person and not as something to be treated separately. Janov says even the most recalcitrant sex problems can be well-treated once their historical origins are learned.

ABOUT DR. JANOV

Dr. Arthur Janov is one of the world’s leading psychologists and the author of twelve books translated into 24 languages, including his international bestseller, The Primal Scream. He is the founder and director of The Primal Center, based in Los Angeles, California. He received his BA and MSW in psychiatric social work from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his Ph.D. in psychology from Claremont Graduate School, where he was inducted into the Academic Hall of Fame.

Dr. Janov has lectured at many universities, including the Royal College of Medicine in London, England, Hunter College in New York, and Karolinska Medical and Research Center in Stockholm, Sweden. His work has also been the subject of a PBS special in the United States and of documentaries in Germany, England, France and Sweden. He has also lectured at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C., and The American Association for the Advancement of Science.

OTHER BOOKS BY DR. JANOV INCLUDE:

LIFE BEFORE BIRTH
THE JANOV SOLUTION
PRIMAL HEALING
THE BIOLOGY OF LOVE
THE PRIMAL SCREAM
WHY YOU GET SICK--HOW YOU GET WELL
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What is Primal Therapy?
Bestselling author of The Primal Scream and renowned psychologist Dr. Arthur Janov explains how Primal Therapy works to relieve us of a host of problems from depression and phobias to severe anxiety and sexual dysfunction caused by painful events and imprints stored in our body systems from early life.

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Review by: JacquieMoran on Oct. 29, 2011 :
This ebook takes the source of all so-called sex dysfunctions back to Primal theory and therapy. So really it's a review on Primal theory, and given how far the therapy has come is indepth, however there are also deeply engaging case studies.

I've been studying Primal for 20 years now and this book impacted me on the importance of engaging relationships, letting them affect you and allowing your rituals, fantasies etc (if you have them)-- as these will lead you to Primal Pain.

A great and deeply involving read.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Paul Rice on Sep. 07, 2011 :
This eBook describes where people need to get to in understanding their own underlying problems, instead of focusing just on their presenting symptoms.

What I found fascinating was Dr. Arthur Janov's explanations of the process by which people can permanently return to normal functioning. Sexual dysfunction is the theme, and other areas of dysfunction are also covered.

Every chapter has at least one portion written by a person who healed their dysfunctional sex life. The most compelling stories for me were written by women who suffered incest. What happened to them caused unimaginable pain and problems in their lives.

Yet these women were able to find true relief and resolution. I believe that their stories will change each reader.

Reading this eBook will be one eye-opener after another for people who suffer from sexual symptoms.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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