What is Prenatal Psychology?
Overview:
Prenatal Psychology: Definition. Main findings. Different perspectives within Prenatal Psychology. A short summation of the evolution of the ideas researched in the field. Why prenatal sciences? Primal Health Advancement Programs based on the findings of Prenatal Psychology. Current trends
PART 1: Videolectures
Videolecture 1: What is Prenatal Psychology (Dr Thomas Verny, MD)
Videolecture 2: On Prenatal Psychology: An Overview
Videolecture 3: How Psychotherapy Can Benefit from the Findings in Other Scientific Disciplines
PART 2: Study Material
- Why Prenatal Sciences?
- The Contribution of Prenatal Psychology to Our Understanding about Prenatal Dynamics and Fetal Behavior
- 10 of the Main Findings in Prenatal Psychology:
1. The whole spectrum of birth from conception to weaning touches the deepest level of the human soul and on all levels: biological, emotional, spiritual and cultural. Intrauterine life, childbirth and the first moments of human life are among the most fertile areas where we can discover the etiology of a wide variety of psychological and physical problems. In addition, depending on the way we have experienced love and care in the womb we also love and care for ourselves and others as we grow older.
2. Man is always an unbreakable unity, whatever his form. From zygote, morula, blastocyst, embryo, fetus, newborn, infant, child, adolescent, adult, elderly … a human being is a continuous whole.
3. Each of us is not only the synthesis of our parents’ genetic code but also the synthesis of the charged mental and emotional (e-DNA) patterns that our parents experience during the 9 months of pregnancy.
4. In grandparents there is information about grandchildren. The care of the body and soul of the unborn is in the hands of their grandparents and their parents, and through them of the whole world.
5. Many children are affected before they are born with adverse effects that could very easily be avoided. One of the most painful prenatal traumas is the child’s existential rejection (unwanted pregnancy) or the child’s partial rejection when the parental environment expresses personal preferences for the sex and attributes of the unborn child, overburdening the child, sometimes for life.
6. The unborn child has a very active part in her//his gestation. (S)he understands everything that happens in his parental environment and reacts to or responds to them. The interpretation (s)he gives to these stimuli and the decisions (s)he makes determine the quality of her/his life and the relationships (s)he creates with her/himself, others and / or the world afterwards.
7. The pain of the world as it comes to the family is transmitted to the child through the mother.
8. In the womb, the fetus constantly downloads growth information. When exposed to danger, (s)he will modify “instructions” and will trigger behavioral programs that will guarantee survival.
9. The communication of information between the unborn child and the maternal environment takes place at all levels and continuously.
10. When future parents take responsibility for the quality of their lives and commit themselves to developing and meeting their needs, they can respect the identity of the children who come to them and welcome them as members of the humanity with equal rights and a spirit of self-esteem.
PART 3: Self-Study Material
A collection of Papers on How Prenatal/ Perinatal Trauma Can Impact a Human Being After Birth
PART 4: Inspiration
The evolution of our civilization is defined by the love, understanding and freedom that our children experience …
Every act of empathy helps a child fulfil her/his own potential. Every act of love heals society and leads it to unpredictably wonderful new directions.
– Lloyd de Mause