In the section entitled, How To Love A Brain, Dr. Janov explains that lack of oxygen during birth or before is also perceived as a lack of love for the fetus, as is a lack of touch for the post-natal child. We show love to a child by touching him. Many of his patients, he writes, suffer from touch deprivation. He does not write about the very, very early period of pregnancy, such as, traumas of conception and implantation. Dr. Janov has again authored a book which has wonderfully concise and pithy quotable sentences on just about every page.
Drugs take the chemical place of denied love.
Oftentimes, hypersexuality has nothing to do with the sex drive itself. It is rather that the imprint is that death can end agony. Months later they are writhing on the padded mat, bewailing their early misery. . . . Nobody suggests this pain to the patient. It evolves from revisiting one's childhood.