![]() When Lennon got back to England from his Janovian therapy, he phoned up his estranged dad and asked him to come over. ![]() A primal scream is all very well in the privacy of your own home but more dangerous in the context of people like John and Yoko who had no concept of privacy and whose screams would be broadcast around the world.īesides which – what sort of person meets John Lennon and decides “this person needs fewer filters?” Who would concludes that this person needs to mouth off about everything that’s getting to them without pausing to reflect more than they already do? Dare I suggest that the person who makes such a declaration is someone with a highly controversial and professionally contested therapeutic theory in desperate need of celebrity endorsements? If Klein incited Lennon’s bitterness then Janov amplified it. But in some ways Klein and Janov worked (unknowingly) together to help Lennon alienate many of the people who tried to love him unreservedly. There is a lot of competition for the title of “most disastrous person” Lennon ever met and assuredly Janov was less disastrous than Allen Klein. In many ways Arthur Janov was one of the most disastrous people that John Lennon ever met.
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