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Everything You “Know” About Life You Learned as a Fetus: Foundations of Myth and Mind and my Personal Involvement with This Research into Our Actual “Human Nature”

Posted on February 9, 2013 by sillymickel

Your Map of Reality Was Written in the Womb: Falls from Grace, Chapter One — Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and the Phenomenon of Re-Experience Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and the Phenomenon of Re-Experience Prenatal and perinatal psychology is the field … Continue reading →

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Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Overview — Early Theorists, Psychoanalysis, and Birth: We Are a Fever, Part Two — The Evidence That Life’s Blueprint Is Written at Birth

Posted on November 17, 2012 by sillymickel

The Template for All You Think Was Created at Birth: Overview of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Field — Early Theorists, Psychoanalysis, and Birth Overview of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Field—Early Theorists: Psychoanalysis and Birth Sigmund Freud — Birth … Continue reading →

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born But Were Afraid to Ask: Birthing Into the Media and the Perinatal Zeitgeist of Postmodern Culture

Posted on September 5, 2012 by sillymickel

Apocalypse No! Chapter Eight: The Perinatal Media ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at … Continue reading →

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Birth, Death, Hell…Roots of Depression and Fascism…And Freedom’s Just a Membrane Away: Perinatal Media, Part 7

Posted on April 1, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Seven: Aliens, Abductions, Hell, and Fear: Freedom Is Just a Membrane Away This idea of birth trauma has been vigorously resisted in our culture ever since it was first presented by Otto Rank. And we can attribute … Continue reading →

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Becoming Thingified–Modern Birth Tells the Baby, “Welcome to the world, now screw you!”: Perinatal Media, Part 3

Posted on March 22, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Three: Welcome to the world, now go to hell!” – A Baby Becomes Thingified Through Modern Birth Treated Like a “Piece of Meat” This practice of ungentle mouth clearing—performed by hurried or insensitive, and uninformed, medical personnel, … Continue reading →