PSYCHOLOGIST

Arthur Janov

1924 - 2017

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Arthur Janov (; August 21, 1924 – October 1, 2017), also known as Art Janov, was an American psychologist, psychotherapist, and writer. He gained notability as the creator of primal therapy, a treatment for mental illness that involves repeatedly descending into, feeling, and experiencing long-repressed childhood pain. Janov first directed a psychotherapy institute called the Primal Institute on North Almont Dr. in West Hollywood, California and from 1980 at the Janov Primal Center at 1205 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, in Venice, Los Angeles and latterly on Ashland Avenue in Santa Monica, California. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Janov is the 153rd most popular psychologist (up from 160th in 2019), the 3,826th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,513th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Arthur Janov ranks 153 out of 235Before him are Ulric Neisser, George Kelly, Françoise Dolto, David Ausubel, Kurt Goldstein, and Robert D. Hare. After him are Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Michael Gazzaniga, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Jacques-Alain Miller, Victor Skumin, and Aleksei N. Leontiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Arthur Janov ranks 169Before him are Bayezid Osman, Fud Leclerc, Mohammed Rafi, Margit Sandemo, Zizi Jeanmaire, and Richard Bull. After him are Franco Cristaldi, Grégoire Kayibanda, Daniel Inouye, Rudolf Barshai, Juan Ponce Enrile, and Jean Bartik. Among people deceased in 2017, Arthur Janov ranks 183Before him are Nadezhda Olizarenko, James Rosenquist, Giulio Angioni, Gilberto Agustoni, Vito Acconci, and John Hillerman. After him are Mildred Dresselhaus, Roger Pingeon, Richard Anderson, Gastone Moschin, Mike Connors, and Peter Berling.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Arthur Janov ranks 3,826 out of 20,380Before him are Ed Begley (1901), S. S. Van Dine (1888), Chelsea Manning (1987), Terry Brooks (1944), Robert Davi (1953), and Candice King (1987). After him are Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Cy Twombly (1928), Johnny Kitagawa (1931), Captain Beefheart (1941), Carl Brashear (1931), and Gerard Damiano (1928).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Arthur Janov ranks 51Before him are Jonathan Haidt (1963), Elizabeth Loftus (1944), J. P. Guilford (1897), Brian Weiss (1944), George Kelly (1905), and David Ausubel (1918). After him are Michael Gazzaniga (1939), James J. Gibson (1904), Stanley Schachter (1922), Harry Harlow (1905), Arnold Gesell (1880), and Rensis Likert (1903).