primal screamn.

1970 A. Janov Primal Scream viii. 83 This is the Primal Scream. It comes out in shuddering gasps, pushed out by the force of years of suppression and denials.

1983 Times 3 Dec. 14/1 Musical phrases and lyrical ideas gather momentum until they soar into the primal scream of ‘Giant’.

2002 S. McCarthy in C. E. Stout Psychol. of Terrorism IV. viii. 139 An anger management training strategy..used Gestalt techniques of role-playing, primal screams, art therapy, and the empty chair.

1971 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 25 Sept. 5/5 ‘Primal scream’ therapy is a spinoff of conventional psychoanalysis developed by a therapist, Dr. Arthur Janov.

2000 Guardian 25 Sept. ii. 2/4 The pop star would surely realise how silly the bed-ins and bag-ins and primal scream therapy could be made to seem now.

1972 N.Y. Times 11 June 16 a/2 Last year's revolutionaries are this year's primal screamers.

2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Jan. c1 [It] is an awful lot to ask of a person who serves the Nets in so many capacities, as president, point guard, strategist and Howard Dean-like primal screamer.

1971 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 16 Oct. 12/2 If characterizing Sunday's Civic Center audience as primal-screaming Lolitas is immoderate, then Cassidy doesn't know his audience.

1977 D. Cohen Psychologists on Psychol. viii. 211 The question of primal screaming came up and..I wondered what all the fuss was about.

1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) vi. 28/1 Each must thread his way through the bewildering array of treatments... Should he choose analysis, est, rolfing, behavior modification, primal screaming?

2005 New Statesman (Nexis) 1 Jan. It is as far removed as could be from the world of Notting Hill salons and primal screaming holidays.