The Best Trauma Books You’ve Never Read I Primal Scream & Primal Wound I Inner Work Library [75/500]

[@jordanthornton]

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[@rebeccapeterson7405]

My “manic depressive”, 3 attempted suicides Mother found much relief and liberation in the early 70s with those 2 books and the fact that this inner work stuff was blossoming just like the music of the times. She would have her group therapy friends over, they would put on Beatles music and the Doors “Break on through to the other side”, and fling off their shirts and bras. She taught me to scream and beat something up with a pillow if I was mad. Later, she read A Course in Miracles which taught her about choices and the Human Ego. She totally redeemed herself and died a beautiful soul who left a legacy of authentic Human transformation. I don’t think you can ever figure it all out, but to know that there are others with pain and trauma that try means everything.

[@jordanthornton]

Thank you for sharing here 🌲

[@callum7081]

Excellent story thank you for sharing 🙏

[@gitu_tg]

My God! I never imagined it to be so intense- how could you possibly give off so much info on therapy in one video! Jordan, you're the best! I've read the Primal Wound and I cannot put into words how it has grounded me. Currently, I'm into Trials of the Visionary Mind. I really wish to read more on psychosynthesis! Thank you a million times Jordan! 🙏🏽 God bless you abundantly.

[@jordanthornton]

Excellent news, keep going deeper 🔋

[@zinasherif7791]

I honestly rather hit the gym and get out my aggression , than screaming and beating in a group session ! To me that primitive reaction is not the way up! Dance but be decent and respectful towards others who are sharing the dancing space This is one of the reasons why I don’t appreciate ceremonies using plant medicin, people go amok with their primitive emotions causing havoc and distraction to others sharing their sacred space. But I do understand that individuals have different needs. Those on the narcissistic spectrum enjoy the dramatic shows while those who are more conservative and shy tend to avoid highly stimulating situations such as screaming, beating or dancing naked

[@nicoleconnor_]

"Where do I feel it in my body?" is one of the most profound questions I've ever asked myself. It's the foundational question that kick-started my journey of self-healing from debilitating burnout in 2017 and led me to into the gym, where I started lifting weights and running. Gave me the awareness to know when I need to disrupt my patterns of movement. I found sound healing, breathwork and other quantum healing modalities to move stuck + stagnant energy. Still working on the screaming...but overall, completely life changing awareness. You totally speak my language and I'm grateful for your platform.

[@randomchannel83838]

I agree…Took me ages to slow myself down enough to learn to feel where it was in my body and to comfort the physical pain/discomfort rather than having it all in my mind…

[@jordanthornton]

Grateful to have you here, and hope that these videos continue to serve you 🌲

[@loveMaegan]

The Primal Wound was FANTASTIC! I read it based on your recommendation (Thank you!) and learned and finally realized the core of my action/reactions in relationships due to my primal wound. Truly intense work (I used 12 highlighter colors to stay focused, lol) but so worth it. I just found The Primal Scream on audible, though I prefer to read, at least it's an option if all physical copies are sold out.

[@jordanthornton]

Hope you enjoy this one too - audio is good alternative to have found if no physical is there. Truly happy to hear how much you got from primal wound too, Maegan!

[@israelyeshurun397]

Deep Appreciation! Just wanted to reach out and express my sincere appreciation for your recent healing perspectives video. Your unique take on comparing conventional and holistic methods struck a chord with me, and I wanted to let you know how much I value that perspective. Your insights have added a new layer to my understanding of wellness, and I'm genuinely grateful for the thought-provoking content you create. Looking forward to more of your insightful work!

[@jordanthornton]

Thank you for taking the time to let me know here, it's a great process to be a part of and 2024 is looking wonderful.

[@JennyBesserit]

I AM SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY ON BOOKS SINCE FINDING YOUR CHANNEL 😂😂😂

[@YouilAushana]

Google the book in pdf

[@mikepackham5260]

Same haha

[@meditationamsterdam]

I read the New Primal Scream thanks to your recommendation and found it to be absolutely packed with insights. Do miss a practical side to it and somewhere read that Facing the Wolf by Theresa Sheppherd was good. Thanks for the recommendations, they don't fall on deaf ears!

[@Andrey-ey1mb]

Hello. I'm reading the book "The New Primal Scream" now, and I like how author has formed a full-fledged paradigm of the theoretical approach. But I’m having a hard time finding how to apply this to my own healing of trauma; there is very little practical guidance in the book. How to find exactly the pain that is behind the injury? How to create a healing process for yourself in everyday life? I had previously read Lowen and Levin, and also practiced bioenergetic exercises for a long time. Also, is it possible to work through your birth trauma on your own? Janov written that this could be dangerous and a specialist is needed. I would be glad if you could clarify this issue, struggling to to use thia approach to self-healing practically.

[@jordanthornton]

Excellent question, and I know you've been working through this for a while - remember your comments. It seems like you might have reached one of those moments where it could be worth getting outside support - you know your issues, and sometimes this kind of focused facilitation can be the next sensible step. Birth trauma is especially nuanced to focus on, although you might find some theoretical steps in Stanislav Grof (perhaps Healing Our Deepest Wounds)

[@mehenra485]

So glad you keep doing videos, you offer a perspective I appreciate very much. Sadly I tell myself a lot that I have no time. So I don't read extra books. But it is not really true that I have no time, it is more about comparing what I would rather spend my time on and then I actually have a lot of time for it.

[@jordanthornton]

Your honesty is appreciated, still highly recommend taking an hour per day to read for the sake of lifelong mental well-being. The most worthwhile investment 🌲

[@theo8261]

I’ve been waiting for this video. Thank you Jordan. Now I’m getting primal wound as well❤

[@jordanthornton]

Ah yes, thank you for the inspiration! 🌲

[@mindfulpaths101]

I bought loads of your recommendations. The first one I’ve chosen to start with is Primal Wound, on chapter one already! Also going to re-read and makes notes as you suggested. I’m excited to read A Treatise of White Magic.

[@jordanthornton]

Great choices - happy studies! 📚

[@gailaltschwager7377]

Thank you, Jordan. I will look at these.

[@jordanthornton]

Hope you enjoy!

[@elaineash1557]

What a beautiful voice!

[@ibrahimchaudhry9024]

Dear Jordan, Thank you for this video,.... & all your very awakening videos. I read Primal Screen 15 years ago. Was quite impressed by it. I then researched on it online. Quite a few experts cautioned that Primal Screem can actually be an exercise in prolonging & feeding trauma. That was my experience with PS, as well, the more I did it. So something is missing with PS. What do you say? Much Strength,

[@jordanthornton]

All modalities are limited, and they should be used with the right people at the right time and for the right length of time. Always worth be cautious with over use, and I would imagine these experts are speaking to extended and unnecessary exposure to certain intense therapies. Thanks for the question and hope this helped! 🌲

[@gitu_tg]

Thank you Jordan 🙏🏽👍

[@jordanthornton]

My pleasure! 🌲

[@sheri023]

Janov's "Primal Healing" is a good book too. Too bad primal therapy got a bad rap from other psychologies. Janov had a new idea about curing neurosis and giving back people their naturalness by going into past pains. Now more healing somatic therapies are seen as helpful as they promote dealing with emotions and feelings and those past hurts instead of just talk therapy. Janov recognized we have 3 physical levels of the brain, the cognitive cortex, the emotional or feeling limbic system, and the primitive lower brainstem where very early trauma can be registered too and held just as the upper systems do with less traumatic pains. It is access to these parts and their fluid integration among the parts over time in therapy that is healing. The revisiting of a past pain and the response to it that we couldn't fully express at the time is finally now let up. It may be agony and crying or a feeling of loneliness from abandonment or neglect, or other pains, but it is all there waiting to be expressed a little at a time. We are triggered less after the feeling and are more likely to not need to defend against something that may have brought up our pains before. We will still have a memory of the pain/event, but it will not carry the charge it once had that put our system into over-drive. We can be calm at last. It takes time to feel the top pains before we getting to the deeper ones. And the patient must feel safety with the therapy environment to let go.

[@carlorizzo827]

Great. And terrifying. As an old guy who worked through this crap years ago, achieving some "integration", enough to function, i can vouch for it: Over time, the defenses, the amnesia, creep back in. It occurs to me it's like weeds overtaking a garden. The healing process has to be regularly renewed. Remembering & re-integrating happens faster now.

[@carlorizzo827]

Ugh meant to add, i feel some sad friendly envy for your positive group interactions. I attempted a few, found some healing. The leaders were sympathetic & competent. However, some participants were triggered by me, and i received their defensive attacks quickly, before leaders could even realize, much less intervene. I understand how slippery sneaky re-enactments can be. One-on-one therapy only for me. Oh! I had not heard about chakra front/ backs before! I always felt some of my chakras were killed (2,3,&5) Is that even a thing

[@lassi3554]

Thank you so much for all the work you are doing and the book recommendations. They are saving so much of my time. I have ordered about 20 books so far (haven't read them all yet...). Could I ask you to make a list of all the book recommendations? This would help a lot as I come back to look for them.

[@jordanthornton]

Wishing you the absolute best with your research! I hope that these videos continue to offer new insights and lanes of direction - you're gonna love this!

[@pickleballreviews]

Thanks for your wisdom..🙏 sometimes it's quite an adventure trying to find books lol That's actually a little sad..

[@carlosyoel9456]

Hi Jordan, I don't know if you have made videos about this but I was wondering what your view is on Family systems and the role it plays when it comes to our healing.

[@tylercaine5657]

You remind me of Survivorman, Les Stroud. His rich dramatic and uncanny way of presenting an idea. I wish there were more people on earth that possessed your passion. It would be a world I would love. Good luck in all your endeavors.

[@jordanthornton]

Thank you, I’ll keep working at this space 🌲

[@killerbootz6306]

Waste removal as a sound effect haha love it

[@jordanthornton]

We work with what we’re given haha

[@killerbootz6306]

@@jordanthornton appreciate the book recommendations!

[@ActivismOfCare]

I like The Primal Wound. I recommend it along with many other books on my KZbin Channel webinar.

[@bitnik]

Thanks. How do you think the physical component relates Animus and Anima, given our individual physicalities, especially possible limits, and ways of finding a "physical voice"? I' ve had benefits through dancing, martial arts and, what I call, 360-awareness tuning, but I imagine each body has a preferred tune and tempo. Cheers, t

[@jordanthornton]

Will keep making videos on these topics, thanks for asking and keep training + doing that holistic grounding in the meantime

[@bitnik]

@@jordanthornton Well, those days are behind me now... often those environments were to ideologically charged and it's hard to find a good teacher. However, the basic principles and applications survived ;)

[@scottwells2456]

Although damaged cognition can be a product of trauma, Intellectualsation is a huge defense against it.

[@jordanthornton]

For sure!

[@adionai]

Reminds me of Oshos dynamic meditations - have you ever studied his stuff around that?

[@jordanthornton]

I’ve never practiced or studies his exact methods - but Osho was certainly drawing upon the wave of these practices as they started cropped up in the 60s and 70s. Heard good things!

[@cl2422]

Primal Wound has meant so much to my self study that it almost feels like cheating haha. Really can't thank you enough for these videos, Jordan. ~25 books down so far this year.

[@jordanthornton]

One of my favourite comments this month - love to see those 25 books, keep going!

[@laurasahelices1994]

Can you expand on why you think talk therapy doesn't work?

[@raleighsmalls4653]

Didn't Grof incorporate both these tracts ? Especially before he was forced to down gear into holobreathing...

[@JennyBesserit]

You have to start making affiliate links so you get a little kickback from these books we're buying

[@jordanthornton]

Nah, I would rather make no money from my recommendations - plenty of financial security from my 1-1 work, no strings attached on KZbin✌🏻

[@JennyBesserit]

@@jordanthornton well in that case I'd like you to know that I bought the primal scream and although it hasn't arrived yet - I have a feeling it's going to help me a lot and I'm deeply thankful for these videos

[@Spectre2434]

Swinging Seventies style therapy 😮❤

[@KiaraCameescu]

I read Primal Scream at your recomandation, and I got to say he has a lot of good info in it but I felt like Janov was a bit ego self-inflating, which doesn´t bother me if I feel like the author is sincere in his efforts and kind, but this time it did. He mentions, in his book that his psychoterapeutic method had such results, as women breast would grow, after healing has taken place. Now I dont know where you stand on that, but if that is suppose to...but wait, go back...what?! why?! I have so many questions, most of them very unortodox... Who told him so boldly about it?!... Oh, where are all those estheic surgons to hear that?!..I think you see my point... Through how many drafts does a book go before publishing? It is a book, not an unresearched statement (taken by the wind)... I wonder if he realised that such a statment was hurting not only him but the profession, in general,. As if psychology did not already fight the battle for its stand as a science, since its inception! I know, is unkind to judge a person by a mistake, but...there is a lot of thinking going into a book..even in the mid 70´s ... If he "exagerated" the truth...what other results did he exagerate about?! I have been reading and listening to lots of books lately, from your recomandations and got a lot of value from them, I have such respect for Robert A Johnson, you can feel the love he has for people, just reading his words..or Bradshaw. or others...I can´t take Janov seriously. I just can´t...

[@jordanthornton]

Appreciate you sharing your perspective, always worth taking the good with the bad - the point of reading many different types of healing books is to acquire the information you personally need. Every human has blind spots and poor choices, and authors are no exception. Alexander Lowen has poor ideas on homosexuality, for example, but I still take immense value from the 90% of the rest of his work - different times, historical works.

[@rshicks256]

❤

[@ninarainbow408]

I remembered you recommended i book that talk about the dark night of the soul but cant remember the name can you tell me please what it was?

[@jordanthornton]

Spiritual Emergency by Stanislav Grof or Trials Of The Visionary Mind by John Perry (both I recommend often) - hope these are the ones, and good look finding your path 🌲

[@zinasherif7791]

I just googled the primal scream and found an article written about it where the therapy was described as a New Age Therapy form. Here is the link ; cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2001/05/22164829/p17.pdf

[@jordanthornton]

With respect, this three page article is trash 😂 Worth exploring the full book yourself & seeing what you agree or disagree with. The author of this particular article seems over-dependent on how ‘science proves’ memory needing to be stored in the brain… which is straight nonsense, as the last 60+ years of somatic therapy have demonstrated. Not attacking you or them of course, I know you’re just sharing an article… but worth addressing! 👌🏻

[@zinasherif7791]

@@jordanthornton I also agree with you and see your point 👍🏼 Having said that, I actually just ordered the book to read it and to make my own “judgement” about it . On another note thou, from the old video you shared on the primal therapy scene from the70’s, it looks to me pretty much like an Ayahuasca ceremony or a holotropic breath work. I remember you mentioning your aversion to plant Medici and te horrific emotions/ memories they can bring up to the surface. Thanks Jordan for interacting with me ❤