The Unborn Child is essential reading for parents, potential parents and grandparents, as well as professionals with responsibility for children, and bringing babies into the world. This book describes prenatal and perinatal development, considering the legacy of health from both parents and grandparents. It explores the effects of the mother's mental and physical state during pregnancy, on the physiology and psychology of her expected child.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

xi

FOREWORD

xiii

Barbara Findeisen

FOREWORD

xvii

Michael A. Crawford

PRELUDE TO THE 2006 EDITION

xxi

Simon H. House

PRELUDE TO THE 1987 EDITION

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Roy Ridgway

Introduction: inner nature and outside world

1

(16)

PART A Conception and life in the womb

1 Beginning and adapting

17

(20)

a. Development week by week

17

(4)

b. The personality of the fetus

21

(7)

c. Learning in the womb

28

(9)

2 Characteristics—intrinsic and being imprinted

37

(16)

a. Abilities acquired before birth

37

(3)

b. The grammar organ in the brain

40

(5)

c. The embryo/fetus develops: basic principles

45

(3)

d. From fetus to child to adult

48

(5)

PART B Dreams, feelings, and releasing distress

3 Dream-images of womb and self-healing responses

53

(13)

a. Images and meaning: Nandor Fodor

53

(8)

b. Responses to children: William Emerson

61

(5)

4 Recalling past distress and releasing it

66

(11)

a. Early prenatal psychology: Otto Rank

66

(3)

b. "First primal therapist": Donald Winnicott

69

(3)

c. An integral universe: Francis Mott

72

(2)

d. The Growth Movement: Abraham Maslow

74

(1)

e. Gestalt therapy: Fritz Perls

75

(2)

5 Recalling of birth memories with LSD

77

(14)

a. LSD therapy: Frank Lake

77

(6)

b. Four stages relating to birth: Stanislav Grof

83

(2)

c. Turning point: rediscovery of cosmic unity

85

(6)

6 Echoes of womb-life: bliss and distress

91

(28)

a. Fantasy and reality

91

(3)

b. Inducing recall: alternatives to LSD

94

(2)

c. Primal integration experience

96

(4)

d. Rebirth: interpretations right and wrong

100

(5)

e. Conception and the first trimester

105

(10)

f. A word of caution

115

(4)

PART C Generating healthy, non-violent people

7 Preventing the imprint of violence

119

(8)

a. The search for peace

119

(1)

b. Safeguarding children's primal state

120

(4)

c. The sociological value of primal care

124

(2)

d. Psychological states relating to physiology of the brain

126

(1)

8 Nutrition to sustain the brain and mental health

127

(25)

a. Mental health and diet: a global look

127

(1)

b. "Windows" in brain development when nutrition is most significant

128

(12)

c. Violence and depression correlate negatively with fish-consumption and DHA

140

(5)

d. Our unique brain evolved by seas, rivers, and lakes

145

(1)

e. DHA: the exceptional molecule

146

(1)

f. Preventing criminality at its roots: protecting and healing people young

147

(1)

g. Truly "tough on the causes of crime"

148

(2)

h. Gently tough on misbehaviour

150

(2)

9 Protecting and regenerating our nutritional environment

152

(6)

a. Soil regeneration is a must for mineral and vitamin supplies

152

(2)

b. Safeguarding DHA resources to sustain the brain

154

(1)

c. The danger of taste in a changing world

155

(1)

d. A practicable approach out of complex research

156

(2)

10 Objectivity and action

158

(11)

a. The objectivity of the evidence is powerful

158

(4)

b. In schools: healthy eating, exercise, and lifestyle practice and education

162

(1)

c. In politics: action on the food-chain of a small nation

163

(1)

d. Coordinating insights for action

164

(5)

PART D Psychological healing and protection

11 Ways that a mother affects her child

169

(18)

a. Pregnancy: attitudes

169

(4)

b. Pregnancy: four dreams

173

(3)

c. Preventing the wounds

176

(5)

d. Fears and feelings of mother and child

181

(1)

e. Sex and the unborn child

182

(1)

f. Predicting ease of birth

183

(4)

12 Healing the original wound

187

(14)

a. Loving touch for primal pain

187

(6)

b. Self and society

193

(2)

c. Working in groups

195

(4)

d. Generating peaceful people

199

(2)

Epilogue I

201

(9)

Truth to build trust

201

(2)

Unearthing the truth about ourselves

203

(1)

Threads of remembrance in a diary

204

(1)

Unfinished business

205

(1)

Prototype of bereavement

206

(2)

Peak experiences

208

(1)

The life you never lived

209

(1)

Epilogue II

210

(3)

REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

213

(17)

RELEVANT ORGANIZATIONS

230

(3)

INDEX

233

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