Love, Sex and Mental Health

Psychology teaches that the ‘thinking’ part of our brain can change how we act and feel. But psychology is wrong. Sensations and feelings drive what we think and how we act, and this book can prove it. Primal Theory teaches, and Primal Therapy shows, that it is experiences imprinted into the human brainstem in the earliest months of life that determine a person’s behaviour and thinking for the rest of his or her life. This understanding provides a new way of looking at the issues that impact negatively on human lives. Primal Therapy, as advanced in this book, throws a new light on love (and the lack of it), sexuality, relationships and mental health (including depression, anger, suicide, addictions, and anxiety). Gilbert Bates was born into a dysfunctional family and suffered a serious mental breakdown at the age of 46. His long journey back to good mental health included him undertaking Primal Therapy at the Janovian Primal centre in Los Angeles. This is his story, told in his own words. Come with Gilbert as he answers life’s biggest questions: What is love? How does the brain work? Why should Primal Therapy form the basis of a new mental health paradigm that covers the causes and treatment of all mental illness?