The Special One - Who dare to march to the beat of his own drum

The Special One - Who dare to march to the beat of his own drum

It takes a “special one” to, like Art Janov, tell ≈ 200.000 psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists in his own homeland that they are wrong about their understanding of how to handle imprinted pain.

Since the “special one”, besides, is one out of their own ranks, who has earned his official status and reputation by taking a PhD in psychology, they either see him as a famous loner or a lovable idealist and shrink without basis in reality and in both cases with multiple reasons to be located in Hollywood.

Radically to change a bunch of 200.000 left brain oriented, often pain propelled defenders of the present drug and psychotherapeutic treatment paradigm is a Herculean task. It will either need an innovative practical access to the code of the principles of evolution and/or a change of the way Primal Therapy can guide us to re-live repressed pain and make it more holistically professional and trustworthy.

Daily we can read about the absurd situation in the mental health sector in the NYT, the Guardian, etc.. Here follow a few examples: Mental illness is an established epidemic in America. 60 million Americans are according to PhRMA using mental tranquilizers. The US are less than 5% of the world’s population, yet it consume 66% of the world’s psychological medications. There is overwhelming evidence that the psycho pharmaceuticals are failing. 

All 30 of the avaliable antidepressants have suffered lawsuits with large payments. Two recent settlements set records for the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations. According to Dr. Jerome Avorn, a medical professor and researcher at Harvard: “When you are selling a billion a year or more of a drug, it’s very tempting for a company to ignore the traffic ticket and keep speeding.” 

Receiving payments for publishing articles written by drug companies is not illegal. Two doctors, Biederman and Wilens (responsible for giving children the diagnosis of paediatric disorder for which anti-psychotic drugs like Risperidal and Zyprexa are used) of Harvard UMS netted 1,6 million USD each from drug companies for recommending powerful anti-psychotic drugs for children! Profit comes first; that is why most psychiatrists have turned to drug therapy.

2009 was the first year when more people died of medicine-related problems than died in traffic accidents. How many more deaths due to medication errors shall we experience and how many young people must be misdiagnosed using heavy anti-psychotic drugs before the ongoing crazy epidemic can be reversed? This is part of the healthcare bubble that is bound to burst soon, it surpasses all the neurotic miscalculations that led to both the IT bubble and the housing bubble.

50 years ago I was deeply disheartened when I suffered from epilepsy. I realize now, after having been fortunate enough to benefit from Art Janovs ingenious invention of the primal principle / Evolution in Reverse that I from a historical perspective was lucky. I had to get to know myself, trust myself, take care of myself and, therefore, I understood more clearly that the world is full of deterministically programmed accidents if we overload the holistic human and material resources, we are equipped with when we are born.

If it weren’t for a few individuals who chose to go against the grain, then we wouldn’t have many of our modern inventions.

Jan Johnsson