By Arthur Janov - The Biology of Love: 1st (first) Edition Hardcover

Yes! A must read! enlightening!

Have never read a popular yet detailed and profeccional description of child brain development before. Very useful for me personally (to understand my own problems and work out solutions) and for me as a father of a child suffering autizm disorder.1. I need to read it again, this time having a printed or interactive brain atlas at hand (or something of that kind).2. The book is a must read for all young people who plan to have children (and I should say the same about "The Primal Scream").3. Reading Dr.Janov's books, I constantly feel dissapointment that for some reason there are no Primal Therapy clinics and specialists in Eastern Europe and in Ukraine specificaly. He stresses always that there is no other to cope with neuroses than Primal Therapy. Ok, may be this is true... so no chance for people outside North America and WE? I wonder why no specialists from CEE or ex-USSR were teached and sertified in Primal Therapy. No interest? No specialists aware of this technology? do not believe... This is not related to the book, though...

Janov's discovery and development of Primal Therapy could transform the world. He should have been awarded the Nobel Prize in several categories long ago. It is the greatest discovery our world has ever seen, and over the years, with much research, Janov has honed his therapy into a precise and predictable science. It is too bad that self interest has caused his peers (as if he really has any) to ignore or deny the work Janov has done. I'm afraid that it still may be many years before Arthur Janov receives the recognition he deserves. In the meantime, only an elite few will discover the benefits of this wonderful, life saving tool.Frank Dale Robinette

Very informative

For those interested in knowing more about themselves. I would recommend it to anyone, a new mother, a friend going through divorce but most importantly to those who plan to have children.

A Review of Janov's The Biology of Love by Stephen Khamsi, Ph.D. Love, argues Janov (2000) in The Biology of Love, is a neurochemical event. While acknowledging that there are genetic and environmental factors, Janov focuses on the negative biological factors that are imprinted upon the fetus. The absence of love adversely affects the nervous and hormonal systems, leaving a "toxic brain environment" that is less able to effect repression (those familiar with Janov's earlier writings may be surprised at this late praise for the biology of repression). Not surprisingly, The Biology of Love is also about primal therapy.Janov continues to praise Freud's hydraulic model and to denigrate dreams and, with less emphasis on curing neurosis, concedes that "reliving normalizes." One surprise, though, is the absolute omission of "brain maps," the celebrated centerpiece of his last book (Janov, 1996). In these dreary times of corporate managed care and polypharmacology, it's certainly heartening to see a new work by Janov, the bold and innovative thinker and psychotherapist. The Biology of Love is a showcase of earlier insights, assertions, andaccomplishments. In addition, there are some new ideas and assertions about love and therapy, as well as thirteen original case presentations on primal therapy. And one must acknowledge Janov's growing microhumility. In the current volume, for example, he acknowledges that he sits at the feet of Dr. Paul MacLean, and that he is indebted to Drs. Leboyer and Odent for their important contributions. Moreover (and uncharacteristically), he shares a bit more personal information--including a cameo of his own traumatic birth anoxia and subsequent birth feelings. But clearly, Janov's "credibility problems" (Mithers, 1994) continue. The Biology of Love reduces human love to hormones and dendrites. Perhaps we should ask whether Janov's biological reductions enrich, or perhaps trivialize, our understanding of love and the mystery of life. END

Fantastic. Very clear and simple. Recommend to all types of therapeuts that goes inside the depths of the human psique.

Keeping it short and sweet, I've been throught Janov's therapy. They are all well intentioned, and believe in what they are doing (I hope). However Primal Therapy is very much similar to a cult, and this book, The Biology of Love, is another in a line of unscientific advertisment booklets.

hard to comprehend if you don’t have any psychology notion

Great