“…[these birth memories often also included] a perceptive critique of the way the birth was handled, & other details of the event that could not have been known through normal conscious channels.” THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness D7V1 2/49
“We see that a substantial body of literature & research—anecdotal, observational, experimental, & empirical—demonstrating the reality of & the importance of birth & its trauma has been going on for almost one-hundred years.” THREAD wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology D7V1 2/50
“Yet others, in time, went beyond birth & began to uncover prenatal influences & memories. This look into events in the womb & their significance for personality, behavior, & thought is what we deal with next.” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psyche #prenatal D7V1 2/51
“*The Prenatal Matrix* “Also a psychoanalyst, as well as being an associate of Sigmund Freud, Nandor Fodor (1949) focused on the reflections of birth & prenatal material in dreams.” THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro D7V1 2/52
“While Winnicott & some others referred to the prenatal as being significant in development, it is with Fodor, & his follower, Francis Mott, that it is most developed.” READ &/or dwnl entire BOOK free AT SITE... wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psyche #prenatal #consciousness D7V1 2/53
“Fodor also designed interventions in therapy to release the negative effects of birth & to process prenatal memories. He was the first to mention actual relivings of birth, in which verifiably accurate memories of birth were recovered.” THREAD drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… D7V1 2/54
“[Fodor] agreed with Rank on many points, however he stressed the origins of consciousness & of trauma being in the prenatal period.” THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb #anthropology D7V1 2/55
“[Fodor] likened birth to death, as he explained that is the way the prenate experiences the drastic change involved in birth; & he claimed that our memory of that death-birth experience is what accounts for our fear of death as adults.” THREAD wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ D7V1 2/56
“Lloyd deMause (1982, 1987, 2002) was instrumental in establishing the new interdisciplinary field of psychohistory. In his study of historical happenings, he discovered that stages in the progression of public events of national,..” THREAD… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… D7V1 2/57
“…international scope & of historical importance—including invasions, elections, wars, programs & policies, uprisings, depressions & recessions, & much more—related to stages in the progression of gestation & birth.” READ BOOK sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychohistory D7V1 2/58
“Which perinatal stages [of deMause] happened to correspond, by the way, remarkably well with Stanislav Grof’s four stages of birth, his *basic perinatal matrices*, as we shall see.” THREAD… wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro D7V1 2/59
“Lloyd deMause found that natal imagery esp predominates in societies during times of crisis & war, when national purpose & state of affairs are construed as a need to escape or break free from an enclosing & constricting force.” READ/DWL BOOK drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… D7V1 2/60