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Dear Student/ Colleague,
Welcome to the “Evolution of Prenatal Psychology (I) ” Educational Module.
This is going to be an awesome experience! Meeting so many beautiful minds is a huge opportunity. And don’t think that this is going to be a one-way experience. Your personal contribution to the understanding of what somebody else has or had discovered is equally significant. Your mind is going to work high speed. So get prepared. Study them to the depth of their depths and then allow yourself to fly beyond them! Become co-creators to this Human Consciousness Evolution!
Are you ready?
Before we embark, we would very much like to see what you think about the theme. Please, take some time and answer the following questions.
1. How do you, yourself, imagine Prenatal Experience?
2. What images and thoughts come to your mind as you read the title and see the image indicative of the Educational Module?
3. How may you come across Prenatal issues in your every day life experience?
4. Why do you think a Prenatal Psychology student needs to learn about the Evolution of Prenatal Psychology?
As you reflect on those questions and provide the answers click below and listen to the musical piece that follows. Music can be very inspirational sometimes. Please, write the answers to the above questions in one file up to 1MB in pdf or doc(x) format and upload.
Remember that at the end of this module, you will be asked to submit your Self-Assessment/ Reflection Lifeline. As you know, this kind of assessment provides you, the student with a structure to apply Prenatal Psychology study to your personal life. You have the opportunity to discover, reflect, gain awareness and apply learning outcomes to your life experience.
Furthermore, you are expected to have the Study Diary in which you add all answers to your assignments, questions, reports etc that are offered as opportunities for you to reflect and expand on the themes studied. You are kindly asked to submit the entries in this Study Diary to your tutor/ mentor at the end of each lesson/ unit.
For this assignment, you can choose one of the three suggested mediums (artwork, written narrative, creating a figure) to express yourself. You are advised to bear this in mind and start right away, keeping your notes as you move on from day to day.
Remember that your tutor/mentor is there to support you as you expand. Thank you.
AIMS & GOALS_7 ECTS CREDITS
THIS IS PART 1
You have the opportunity to meet and converse with some of the most ingenious Prenatal Psychology Pioneers all over the globe and learn from their wisdom about who you are and why you live your life the way you do!
The main aim of this specific Module is to familiarize the Student with the works of The above Pioneers in the Field of Prenatal Psychology in Modern Times. Thus, there is a link between Freud’s Psychoanalysis as his Students Otto Rank, Sandor Ferensczi, Wilhelm Reich and Karl Jung were among the ones who took Analysis from childhood to deeper “depths” exploring birth dynamics and its impact on Life. There are three groups of pioneers studied: The early pioneers, the middle generation and the torch bearers, the ones who are still developing and evolving Prenatal Psychology. The Module presents the Principles of their Theories, as well as Techniques that they have developed and taught. The Student has the opportunity to understand and follow the line of thought but also is able to recognize and use therapeutic tools introduced by those Prenatal Pioneers.
In this Module PSM7102 (I) this is what you are going to learn:
UNIT 1: Myths about the Prenatal & Perinatal Life of the Human Being; what the Ancient Greek Classics said about Prenatal & Perinatal Life of Human Beings.
UNIT 2: OTTO RANK: Differences between Freud & Rank. The Trauma of Birth. Will Therapy. Rank’s Assumptions about Neurosis. Absurdity in Human Behavior. The Importance of Myth in Therapy. The Hero, the Artist & the Simple Man. The Element of the Supernatural in the Human Being.
UNIT 3 : SANDOR FERENCZI: Flexibility of Psychoanalytic Technique. The Etiology of Neurosis & Serious Psychological Disorders & the Psychodynamic of Trauma. The Confusion of Languages Between Adults & Child: The Sexual Abuse of the Child. The Source of Relaxation & Neo-catharsis. Mutual Analysis. Approaches of Humanistic & Transpersonal Movements in Psychotherapy.
UNIT 4: NANDOR FODOR: Birth Therapy: Dream Interpretation Based On the Principles of the Prebirth Trauma & ‘The Trauma of Birth’. The Integration of Prebirth Experiences. FRANCIS MOTT: Conception. ‘The Umbilical Affect.’
UNIT 5: KARL JUNG: The Archetype of the Mother. The Distortion of the Maternal Archetype in the Son. The Distortion of the Maternal Archetype in the Daughter. The Archetype of Father.
UNIT 6: LIETART PEERBOLTE: Bridge Between Analysis & Comparison of Physical & Psychic Energy. Engrams. Ego & Genius. The Third Factor. Love (oceanic) & Sex. The Individuation of Oceanic Feelings. Prenatal Dreams. The Psychology of Twins. The Twin That Has Survived.
UNIT 7: PRENATAL DREAMS (Lietart Peerbolt, Nandor Fondor and more)
UNIT 8: PIERRE JANET: The Subconscious. The Memory. Dissociation. The Trauma. Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. The Principles of the Therapeutic Approach of Janet.
SESSION 9: ROBERTO ASSAGIOLI: Psychosynthesis
SESSION 10: WILHELM REICH: Man & His Armoring. Character-Analysis. Body Psychotherapy. Orgone Theory.
SESSION 11: DAVID BOADELLA & BIOSYNTHESIS: Basic Principles of Biosynthesis. Principles of Psychological Health. The Dysfunctions: Somatic, Psychological & Spiritual Aspects of Health. The Perpetuation of Dysfunction. The Tree of Man: Lifestreams, Life Fields, Lifescapes, Lifeforms, Lifegrounds, Lightstreams. Techniques: Centering, Grounding, Facing, Sounding, Bonding etc.
SESSION 12: THE FETAL ORIGINS OF HISTORY (PSYCHOHISTORY)