“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
“[Lloyd deMause] also introduced the *suffering fetus* & the *poisonous placenta* as sources of these later metaphors & imagery.” READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb #anthropology D7V1 2/61
“In fact, in studying the imagery in the national media of various countries [Lloyd deMause] has been able to predict political, social, & economic events such as wars & invasions, recessions,& political downfalls.” THREAD wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology #prenatal D7V1 2/62
“[Lloyd deMauses’s] work begins to look at the prenatal influences & imprints & how they related to macrocosmic issues of politics, history, social movements, & issues of war & peace.” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth D7V1 2/63
“As importantly, in my opinion, [Lloyd deMause] was the first to stress that prenatal existence, for a good deal of it, is anything but the blissful heavenly time that all earlier researchers assumed of it.” … sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychohistory #consciousness D7V1 2/64