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1 online resource (542 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Womb-life, a New Paradigm; Chapter 1. How Love Sculpts the Brain; Love Before Birth; The Die is Cast; Chapter 2. Are We Already Who We Are at Birth?; Toxins and the Body's "Conscious" Defense; Imprinting: The Signature of Pregnancy; Chapter 3. Searching for a Universal Psychotherapy; The Babel of Clinical Psychology; Electroshock Therapy: Zapping Symptoms, Avoiding Cures; On Vital Signs in Primal Therapy; Chapter 4. How the Brain Talks to Itself; Three Levels of Consciousness |
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First-Line: The Brain-StemSecond-Line: The Limbic System; Third-Line: The Neocortex; Chapter 5. The Womb as a Black Box; The Brain that Doesn't Sleep; Hormones and Homosexuality; Depression: The Black Box Perspective; The Brainstem in Primal Therapy; Part Two: The Science of Early Human Development; Chapter 6. How We Internalize Our External World: Telomeres as a Predictor of Life Expectancy; Chapter 7. How Repression Works; Small Feet, Small Chest: A Sign of Cancer?; Chapter 8. Epigenetics: The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics; Epigenetics, Birth, and Stress |
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Heredity Turned on Its HeadEpigenetics and Pain; Revisiting Family History; Chapter 9. Oxytocin: The Hormone of Love; Mother-Child Bonding; Trauma, Sexuality, and The Maternal Instinct; Vasopressin: The Male Love Hormone; Synthetic Drugs and Therapy; Chapter 10. Womb-life and Serotonin Output: The Origin for Later Mental Illness; Chapter 11. Early Trauma and Epilepsy; Chapter 12. Imipramine Binding Study; Chapter 13. How Addiction Gets Its Start Early in Our Lives; The Limbic System and Drugs; Dopamine and Cocaine; Alcohol; Explaining Addiction; Chapter 14. The Birth Trauma |
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Part Three: Explaining Adult Mental Illness and DiseaseChapter 15. Anoxia, Reduced Oxygen at Birth, and Adult Behavior; Hypoxia and Schizophrenia; Stress, Personality, and the Immune System; Oxygen, Metabolism, and Cold Feet; The Critical Window: Like Grandmother, Like Mother, Like Son 157; Early Warning Signs for Later Psychopathology and Disease; Primal Therapy: Toward a Cure for Endogenous Depression; Chapter 16. On the Nature of Anxiety; Uncovering the Salamander Brain; Reliving Anxiety: Away from Pills; Animal Terror: MRIs, Nightmares, Sex, and Other Clues to Our Past |
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Evolution of the Left BrainTreating the "Right" Brain; Chapter 17. On Psychopathology; Chapter 18. On Attention Deficit Disorder; Chapter 19. The Root Cause of Alzheimer's and Deep Depression; Part Four: Toward a Feeling Therapy; Chapter 20. The Role of Evolution in Psychotherapy; Pain's Neurological Evolution; Therapy as a Time Machine: Stem Cells, Cancer, and Darwin Revisited; Chapter 21. On the Corrective Emotional Experience; Awareness Versus Consciousness; Memory and Reliving: In Search of Lost Time; Chapter 22. Pregnancy: The New Critical Window |
| Summary |
A remarkable follow-up to the international bestselling The Primal Scream, groundbreaking psychologist Arthur Janov cites in this examination hundreds of studies showing how experience in the womb and at birth have enduring life consequences, laying the foundation in later life for anxiety and depressive disorders, heart attacks, and even cancer. Janov explains how during pregnancy and the first years of life, events are imprinted in the brain that affect how aggressive or passive people will become, how despairing or optimistic they will be, and even how long they will live. Destined to have |
| Notes |
Chapter 23. Feeling Emotional Pain: Can It Be a Matter of Life and Death? |
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Print version record |
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Prenatal influences -- Psychological aspects
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Primal therapy.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
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Prenatal influences -- Psychological aspects
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Primal therapy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780983639657 |
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0983639655 |
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