Primal Therapy
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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- DirectorSimon CartwrightStarsGordon PeastonGlen is barely a man. In a desperate attempt to tap into his masculinity he attends a primal scream therapy session, surrounded by wailing men he cannot even make a sound. When another member of the class pushes Glen too far he finally lets something out- a miniature version of himself which does whatever it wants, regardless of the consequences.
- DirectorMichel DruckerStarsMichel DruckerArthur JanovFrance JanovFrench Television interviews Arthur and France Janov about Primal Theraphy, the book "The Primal Scream" and shows excerpts from therapy sessions.
- DirectorGerard RöhlStarsArthur JanovEva ThomeHans HederbergThe arrival of Primal therapy in Sweden. Psychotherapists are trained, support associations formed, debates and deliverance. Eva travels to Arthur Janov in LA.
- DirectorGil ToffStarsArthur JanovTomDocuments the intensive Primal Therapy of a thirty-five year old college professor who has spent most of his life taking refuge in the comfortable half-world of neurosis.
- DirectorLars MolinStarsIngvar HirdwallBo BrundinKnut PettersenThe doctor at an asylum decides that it would be good for the patients if they could take care of a few pigs. This turns out so well that they start selling pigs to make money. The patients gets saner for every day that goes by and the staff start to behave rather strangely.
- DirectorJoachim HamouThe Primal Scene is recorded 2010 in Los Angeles with the exception of one scene recorded in Copenhagen fall 2011. It's hard to resume what the film is about, which is a good reason to see it... But this much I can tell you. There are several scenes with Arthur Janov, the man who invented Primal Therapy and there is a great scene with author Chris Kraus talking about art and economy and the artist Raul Baltazar makes a Chris Burden re-enactment in a shopping ally in Mc Arthur Park, there is almost an entire performance by Oscar Santos among many other things...
- DirectorPhilip HobelStarsDavid CortiagniArthur JanovVivian JanovPresents psycho therapist Arthur Janov's theory concerning Primal Therapy for use with neurotics. Contains excerpts of actual therapy sessions.
- DirectorUlf Kjell GürStarsArthur JanovVivian JanovJohn La BriolaAn associative view of the days, nights and characters that enclosed the life of Arthur Janov, which defines in the conclusion "It's never too late to have a happy childhood".
- DirectorJosh SabeyAn exploration of problems with the mental health care system, and how the current approach to treating mental illness impacts patients and their families.
- DirectorJuliane GrossheimStarsNico AimarPatricia DuboisAttila MuehlIn the commune of the Viennese activism-artist Otto Muehl, the children should remain 'unspoilt from the nuclear family' in order to develop into completely-new human beings. Setting out as a free collective in the early 1970s, the social experiment emerged as a totalitarian system which, 20 years later, ended as a dramatic failure. Through the eyes of these children, the film looks back at the community and examines what has become of the children of this utopia.
- DirectorPaul-Julien RobertStarsFlorence DesurmontClaudia MuehlOtto MuehlCommunal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family - these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl at the beginning of the 1970's. In my fathers, my mother and me the director Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, embarks on a personal journey into his past. Including archive material made public for the first time in this film, the director confronts himself and his mother with the question 'What is family?'.
- DirectorMadonna BenjaminStarsJack DavenportClaudia MuehlOtto MuehlA look at the Austrian far-left Friedrichshof Commune which was set up in 1972 by artist Otto Muehl. It was dissolved in 1990 when Muehl was convicted of the abuse of teenagers who lived in the commune.
- DirectorLene BergStarsReine BrynolfssonIngvar HirdwallFred Hjelm"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)" - Oscar Wilde.
- DirectorTherese SchulmeisterStarsSarah BornRainer DopplerThomas KamperTerese as a young woman breaks out the narrow patriarchal mold of a conservative Viennese family being shaped by the mother's enigmatic sorrow and the father's intimidating authority. She joins a commune with free sexuality and common property founded by Otto Muehl in the early 70s. This initially seems to be a very liberating life and love experiment, with highly developed art praxis in different medias and a prosperous economy. It yet increasingly glides into failure when Otto Muehl starts to act more and more authoritarian and to abuse his almost unlimited power in the group. Terese finds herself again in a difficult situation that calls for a clear decision.
- DirectorPaul TungeStarsPetronella BarkerDerek BroughtonMaria Grazia Di MeoMid twenty failed entrepreneur Olav Astrup is refused contact with his new born child. Without family and a social network he seeks for personal development in a eccentric gestalt therapist he finds on the dark web.
- DirectorVincent JuilleratStarsAnni BrusGünter BrusKurt KrenA portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence with unbridled abandon.
- DirectorKlaus JohnStarsH.R. GigerStanislav GrofAlbert HofmannFamed discoverer of LSD Albert Hofmann speaks with renowned psychoanalyst Stanislav Grof, author Tav Sparks, and artist Hans Ruedi Giger at the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland in October of 2005.
- StarsMaud NycanderAbout a group of patients at a closed psychiatric ward in Stockholm.
- DirectorCia DahlquistStarsCia DahlquistSandra EscherNils-Tore Krusenblad"Hearing Voices" - The response by the outside world of people hearing voices often involves denying the existence or rejecting the voices. Still, to some they are very real and active.
- DirectorHelene Alm"Grace Puppies" - Laestadianism, the revival movement of the Swedish Church, is best known for its strict attitude to life and for the religious ecstasy called "liikutuksia"n(emotion). The revival movement began in Sweden's northernmost parish, Karesuando. Today, 150 years later, the parishes are growing again. How does the revival look 200 years after the birth of Lars Levi Laestadius's?
- DirectorRick AlversonStarsTye SheridanUdo KierLarry FessendenThe story of a young man who, after losing his mother, goes to work with a doctor specializing in lobotomies and therapies.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsChuck ConnorsStella StevensAlex CordThis film chronicles the goings on at Synanon House, a rehabilitation center for people with all kinds of addictions. Chuck Dederich, a recovering alcoholic, founded and runs Synanon House.
- DirectorMaurice MuradStarsHarvey BurkeJoanne MorrisonBill MoyersA documentary on mental health illness and the large release of "mental wards" around the late 1970's.
- DirectorCyrus BaetzStarsAlexa ElmyRyan HerzichGene RomanoWhen a young writer has his heart broken and can't seem to get back on track, his best friend thinks he knows just what's needed. He may say all the wrong things, but he might have one great idea.
- DirectorSanttu SalminenStarsEppu SalminenEmil KihlströmHannes SuominenA middle-aged man on the verge of a burnout seeks new energy through a very special form of self help therapy.