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Definition of primal scream therapy
: psychotherapy in which the patient recalls and reenacts a particularly disturbing past experience usually occurring early in life and expresses normally repressed anger or frustration especially through spontaneous and unrestrained screams, hysteria, or violence
— called also primal therapy
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primal scream therapy
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\Medical Definition of primal scream therapy
: psychotherapy in which the patient recalls and reenacts a particularly disturbing past experience usually occurring early in life and expresses normally repressed anger or frustration especially through spontaneous and unrestrained screams, hysteria, or violence
— called also primal scream, primal therapy
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The first known use of primal scream therapy was in 1971
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