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| | Prologue: Why Primal Renaissance? |
 | | The terms primal psychology, in the second half, as opposed to, say, primal integration or primal therapy, were chosen to further reflect that sense of coming into maturity or "growing up." For it is felt that we are—and that our journal should reflect that we are—more than just about a particular therapy. |
 | | Primal has come to represent a particular view and direction in therapy, growth, or healing, which at this point is discovered, at least to some extent, under headings as diverse as Total Feeling Process, holotropic breathwork, hakomi, organic process therapy, shamanism (sometimes), organismic psychotherapy, some forms of rebirthing, psycho-emotional release therapy, and even "past-life therapy". |
 | | We, in Primal, are uniquely able to sense the potential of this inclusion as we experience the effects that this kind of appreciation of the feeling, the affectionate, the intuitive, the natural, the body, and the senses has had upon our individual lives. |
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