Author Joel Kovel wrote that The Primal Scream shows that Janov is one of several figures in the history of psychotherapy who have come to be seen as savior figures, noting that the book had received ``extravagant praise'' from the Chattanooga Times and the Berkeley Gazette, both of which compared Janov to Freud. He credited Janov with tapping a ``bedrock of great emotional power.''
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