a form of psychotherapy in which patients are encouraged to scream abusively about their parents and agonizingly about their own suffering in infancy
Also called: primal scream therapy, scream therapy
Word origin
C20: from the book The Primal Scream (1970) by Arthur Janov, US psychologist, who originated the treatment
Examples of 'scream therapy' in a sentence
scream therapy
It sounded like a chicken undergoing primal scream therapy.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We do something called a burn meditation, a combination of scream therapy and a magical disco rave, crushingly embarrassing and funny at the same time.