Consciousness and memory

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The Dark Side and recover

I have not to be ashamed to be as sick as I am... I need to move back into my healing zone... that means more in touch with memory and with  pain than with anxiety and terror..., as writes a survivor of desperate tortures.

It is the healing each of us longs for, and the healing that each of us must accomplish if we are to move forward into our fullest potential. Learning to experience emotions is one of the most difficult tasks that can be undertaken. Many people do not know that they are angry, even when rage flows through them like a river. Some do not know that they are grieving, even when sorrow is the only sun that rises for them in the morning. Most people think of themselves as experiencing emotions only when powerfully emotional currents erupt through their lives, disturbing routines devoted to activities, accomplishments, or survival. Emotional awareness - becoming aware of everything that you are feeling at every moment - is very difficult because we experience so much pain each moment. Becoming aware of our emotions means becoming aware of pain. It is challenging, difficult, and unpleasant. It is also more rewarding than most of us can imagine. That is because most of us cannot imagine a life free from compulsions, fixations, obsessions, and addictions, in which we act with an empowered heart and are free of attachment to the outcome. The alternative to becoming aware of your emotions is to continue masking the pain that you experience. When you do, your pain emerges in unexpected ways distorting your behavior, changing your words, shaping your perception's, and creating consequences that are as unwanted as they are difficult. This alternative no longer works.

Memory and scientific data

From the Publisher of The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain by Louis Cozolino Thanks to concrete applications of the newest findings, readers will find this         (Babette Rothschild, MSW).

(But these concepts have a double-edged meaning since they can be "used" in a double-edged way: they can explain the possibility of healing even persons who have suffered terrible past mishaps, but can also suggest that the proneness to superstitions in humankind can rather easily allow too many people to be brain-washed almost before having realized that they own their minds.)

The most serious social side effect of pathological trance is the reduced awareness and disabled communication. Communication of information is critical for any system to function. Human systems as well as computer systems, ecological, biological, political and social systems and more all require clear, accurate, timely communication of information in order to function. The lack of clear, accurate, or timely communication between individuals is the basis for misunderstandings, disappointments, hurt feelings, resentment, and violence. The human, economic, agricultural, industrial and social systems that rely on people who are in pathological trance has disastrous consequences.

Counter transference: Effects on the Group Therapist Working with Trauma A discussion of:
1.  Hazardous Terrain: Countertransference Reactions in Trauma Groups by Maggie Ziegler and Maureen McEvoy, pp. 116-140.
Objectives:
1. To learn to identify countertransference when working with trauma groups. 
2. To learn to identify vicarious traumatization when working with trauma groups.

Complex PTSD / DESNOS This website is provided as an educational resource concerning PTSD and other enduring consequences of traumatic stress.

Finding past memories...

Conscious and Unconscious Processes: Psychodynamic, Cognitive, and Neurophysiological Convergences by Howard Shevrin (Editor), James A. Bond, Linda A. W. Brakel, RichaHertel, William J. Williams 
The notion of an unconscious mental life has been a source of controversy for more than a century...
If you are hoping to see evidence that psychoanalysis is becoming a science, you'll want to read it. If you are one of those critics who claims that psychoanalysts can never agree on the interpretation of such matters as real people's unconscious conflicts, or a believer in the hermeneutic approach who feels that clinical judgments about important matters in patients' lives must be bent out of recognizable shape by the demands of scientific method, you must read it! Provides a model example of a methodologically rigorous project that nonetheless retains the richness of the clinical endeavour. Clinicians and researchers alike will be happy to see the clear example of intriguing and important psychoanalytic research.... Conscious and Unconscious Processes is essential reading for analysts who feel it is valuable to demonstrate the empirical basis for fundamental psychoanalytic assumptions.... Shevrin and colleagues... constructed a groundbreaking method through which to evaluate the notion of unconscious conflict. They have succeeded in demonstrating nothing less than evidence for the existence of the dynamic unconscious... The crucial importance of this work will be readily apparent to the interested psychoanalytic reader.

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

I cannot keep all  things straight. the remembering goes back and forth  and not straight in a line... Taking very shaky steps in a crooked and zig-zagging manner, approaching and avoiding the awful truth that this happened... but knowing there was a cause for my pain, and that this cause makes sense, allow these multi-level memories... [even if and  when] the inner work, the therapy has lost [inevitably] its sweetness... So hard to go back and forth between therapy and life - whatever that is...

Much of the journey involves a walk through Dante's Inferno. Pain and every form of death are inherent to the process. This journey requires going much deeper than‘collective consciousness' wants to go... (excerpt from ~ The Way of the Wound ~ by Robert Grant, PhD quoted in November Survivorship Monthly Notes). 

Ordinary memory tends to be more conscious, voluntary and flexible, while traumatic memory is usually more involuntary and unconscious, and is often rigid. Ordinary memory tends to be more oriented in time, whereas traumatic memory is usually frozen outside of time . . . coming more from our unconscious mind. And even while it is frozen in time, when it surfaces unconsciously or when we consciously remember it we feel like it is happening right now, at this very moment, as opposed to having happened in the past. Trauma memory is stored as state-dependent memory. According to Dr. Whitfield, state-dependent memory means we tend to remember better when we are in the same inner or experiential state that we were in when we first experienced or learned something.
This is why survivors and therapists talk so much about triggers. Triggers are stimuli that we felt or experienced during the original trauma. The memory gets attached in our mind to the triggers. And then later, encountering the triggers again will bring up the memory of the trauma. This is an example of state-dependent memory. The effect of encountering the trigger brings up the memory. Now I want to talk about a tricky area in memory recovery research - accidental scrambling of memories. Please bear with me. I will explain where I'm going with this. I'm not a member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and frankly, I think the basis of their so-called foundation is purely evil. However, that does not mean that I don't believe my traumatic memories can't be contaminated after I've remembered them. I've talked with several therapists who are very dedicated to helping trauma survivors. They have confirmed what I've learned. This information I'm about to give you is simply to help us all sort out verifiable memories from those that can be used in a negative way to discredit us in public or in court.

This confirms moreover that sleeping reason breeds monsters, not only in the present and not only in a single person. Monsters breed other and other monsters: monsters deceiving, disqualifying, harming or at least threatening creating solidarity among criminals to cover - present and past - misdeeds. More often reason and truth are sleeping merely, but are not less damaging, either due to lack of skill in listeners / healers or an - at least plausible - avoiding the awful truth in the victims themselves.

Research reveals brain has biological mechanism to block unwanted memories BY LISA TREI: For the first time we see some mechanism that could play a role in active forgetting

Using brain imaging scans to identify the neural systems involved in actively suppressing memory,  reinforcing Sigmund Freud's controversial century-old thesis about the existence of voluntary memory suppression in a 2001 paper published in Nature by Michael Anderson titled Suppressing Unwanted Memories by Executive Control: the big news is that we've shown how the human brain blocks an unwanted memory, that there is such a mechanism and it has a biological basis.

VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE:
Basic behavioral science research on the nature of and variations in personality is illuminating the sources of these differences and revealing ways to bolster people's ability to deal with life's difficult and painful aspects. Studies to date suggest that there is no single source of resilience or vulnerability. Rather, many interacting factors come into play.

[When] the pain and depression are deepening. Am I a masochist or is it just a relief to have the pain instead of the intolerable anxiety? even if  only to restore the sadness over the anxiety. How crazy this sounds. But how right. It's called "being as sick as I am", and right now feels as bad  as the compulsivity.

1. Originary personality as roots, plunging and nurturing into a rich or poor, favourable or difficult ground; 
2. Trunk as development with its regular year by year phases and improvements (or faults);
3. Finally: the unceasing and unpredictable EVOLUTION of branches, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds.

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Look at Mental Health Problems and Young People: Concepts and Practice by Louise Rowling, Graham Martin, Lyn Walker

 

Damaged development

A Selective History of Induction II. Spemann's induction experiments The Spemann-Mangold organizer In 1901, Curt Herbst wrote that he thought it possible

to establish the occurrence of formative stimuli which are exerted from one part of the embryo to another, and to demonstrate eventually the possibility of a complete resolution of the entire ontogenesis into a sequence of such inductions.

 This prediction of inductive cascades was a bold statement, given that no sequence of events had yet been observed (1, 2). But that was soon to change. That same year, HANS SPEMANN (3) published one of the most significant and seminal papers in the history of embryology (4). his experimental analysis of lens formation in the frog.... In 1924, while working on the relatively large eggs of amphibians he discovered, together with Hilde Mangold, the existence of an area in the embryo, the portions of which, upon transplantation into a different part of a second embryo, induced the secondary embryonic primordia. The name "organizer centre" or "organizer" was given by him to those parts. For this discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935.

I am nothign but a foolish old woman who is still a child if she has ever been a child.... [But] an adult in strong need of regression can truly go  back to an earlier stage of development... yes, even a missed or badly done one.

Memory and dissociation

[ I felt not to care for "one" person: instead to be with a "collective cooperative"]
- mi sembrava di aver a che fare con una "cooperativa" non con "una" persona.

F.Reta Schreiber 'Sybil'  1975 Penguin books. There is also a movie from this book:Sybil (1976) (TV: director: Daniel Petrie, actors: Sally Field = Sybil Dorsett, Joanne Woodward =  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur).  Cornelia Wilbur,M.D.: August 26, 1908 April 9, 1992 Shirley Ardell Mason (Sybil): January 25 1923 - February 26 1998 Shirley Ardell Mason has been reported by the press to be Sybil, the real-life prototype for the book of the same name, a case study based upon her life. Dr. Cornelia Wilbur was the courageous analyst who dared to see that something very different was happening with her patient. This page is under construction. I will gradually add quotations from news articles about the real life women behind the story.

Dissociation: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives by Steven Jay Lynn (Editor), Judith W. Rhue (Editor) Covers the major aspects of dissociation, from the predominant models and diagnostic and treatment approaches, to research, clinical, and conceptual issues. Presents practical information for diagnosing and treating clients suffering from dissociative disorders, post- traumatic stress disorders, and the consequences of sexual victimization and cult involvement, and discusses social and cultural factors. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Much more frequent however are cases of memory lapses where disturbing reminiscences are pushed back. (In the main text DSM-IV these are technically called dissociations). They can regard real facts - objectively serious or even only subjectively disturbing - but they can then lead to the avoidance of, or even comply with, the will to throwing away unbearable EMOTIONS, and/or emotions unacceptable because they are embroiled together, or cannot adapt to displeasing facts. 
Possible "dissociations" from memory or from awareness of the present can hit everyone, but this is NOT a problem concerning brain power, or age, or how long ago the facts happened: it is well-known that old people can remember faultlessly events in the distant past, much better than recent news and it has been proved that one can participate in and remember birth's and pre-birth experiences.
Memory preserved and memory to be lost... : look also to the recent movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)  Directed by Michel Gondry Writing credits (WGA)  Charlie Kaufman (story) & Michel Gondry (story) ... Genre: Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Comedy. Plot outline:  A couple (Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet) undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.

Memory Lane  - Le intermittenze del cuore - is the story as an emotional autobiography of an elderly Italian film director commissioned by a French producer to make a film on the life of Proust. During the preliminary preparations - which take him back and forth between France and Italy - Proust's great description of involuntary memory becomes real for him as he starts reliving key moments from his own past. In a series of free associations (visual, tactile, acoustic) he experiences breaking with a group of partisans fighting the German occupation, falling repeatedly in love with the same woman whom he fails to recognize after a long separation, taking her to Switzerland for an abortion, his relationship with his twenty-year-old son who mirrors back to him his own youth. The film has a simultaneous foot in both the past and present. It embraces an entire life and, by doing this, touches the common experience of a whole generation.

Symptoms and "monsters"

Very mighty proposals regarding the recover of memory and its outcomes can be also reached in the mainstream literature: the largest work (12 volumes, a series of seven individual novels that constitute one larger one) - of the famed French writer Marcel Proust is just called A la recerche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). "The memory of scents and tastes fills his thoughts and colors his health" is written on the cover page of its hardcover edition: it depicts how NOT conscious reconsidering, but the making the most of "involuntary memories", of sensorial sudden happenings gave a profound sense to a continual searching passages of past life. Marcel Proust was a true humanistic writer, not a scientist, but his "emotional autobiography". his way to take advantage of sensorial flash-backs have been praised as a great discover, which made even him and his work a "cult", his so enthusiastic followers jokingly defined "sick of proustitis".

Remembrance of Things Past (3 Volume Boxed Set) Marcel Proust, Terence Kilmartin (Translator), C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (Translator). Many famed Film directors tried to get the Recherche as a film: but not as the whole, only separately some of the twelve books. The most recent film is Memory Lane.

Healing, psychoanalysis, ripeness... and their opponents

Even when the "repression" is massive and malignant (often "helped" with alcohol or drugs, if not authorized or even forced with so-called medicaments and/or elettroshock) at any time sudden violent flashes of vivid memories (rightly called FLASHBACKS) can spontaneously either fleetingly unblock the memory, or progress when the censorial effort gives away. These do NOT occur due to a  a particular brain power, or a decision, or an external inducement, or some "magical" occurence. The flash-backs, with their vivid emotional psychological reliving, are nevertheless often accompanied by a lot of real BODILY manifestations: one can perhaps hypothesize the possibility that "these" specific memories can be STORED not in the brain itself but everywhere in the "visceral body", in the nervous cells of the A.P.U.D. system, in its so-called paraneurones, which surround bowels and even lodges in perhaps all visceral systems (for example: even in the so called glomes).
(Look also at: Anmnesis: a way for healing...) and on the wide bibliography of Medline / PubMed

Look into at: Physical (somatic) memory

And on the wholesome physiological site one has to notice the PHEROMONES and their actions. It was in 1986 that Dr.Winnifred Cutler, founder of Athena Institute, and her colleagues conducted the first controlled scientific studies to document the existence of pheromones in humans. Prior to their landmark research there were no conclusive indications that pheromones were excreted by humans. By 1999, from a biological perspective, the term pheromone can be defined as a chemical excreted by animals that promotes behaviors [mostly for to] PERPETUATE THE SPECIES.... She published her first scientific paper on the subject back in 1986, and she has gone on to isolate these'naturally occurring ingredients' and bottle them...

Physiology of the APUD system. Record from database: MEDLINE Physiology of the APUD system. Abstract The characteristic biochemical pathway of the APUD cell, namely amine precursor uptake and decarboxylation, are illustrated by the examples of serotonin and catecholamine metabolism. Increasing understanding of the origins of APUDomas as well as the biochemistry and physiology of the hormones they produce, has led to improved methods of detection, imaging and treatment of afflicted patients. APUD Neuroendocrine and Peptide Systems. Pearse postulated in 1969 the presence of a dispersed system of apud cells -- all of neural crest origin -- so proposed a far-flung 'APUD' neuroendocrine system, secreting peptide mediators. The amines and peptides function variously as neurotransmitters, hormones, and modulators of neural action.  In the 1970s, the focus was on the amine metabolism that gave a unifying aspect to rather perplexing cells, scattered in many organs, which had been noticed and considered on an individual basis as clear (empty looking), or having granules reacting with silver salts. It turned out that most of these cell types made and released non-cytokine peptide mediators, to act locally or at a distance. The peptide story has now overwhelmed the amine or APUD idea, because these peptide factors are many, and are made and used for signaling in every part of the body, including the brain. The basis of the APUD classification is outlined below, because it helps explain aspects of pathology. 1. APUD (APUD cells of neural crest origin: Uptake and Decarboxylation) Within some endocrine glands, chemoreceptors, the brain, and dispersed in epithelia, are cells that form amine compounds. After an Amine Precursor has been taken Up, the cell Decarboxylates it to form serotonin (5-HT) from 5-hydroxytryptophane, or a catecholamine from dihydroxyphenylalanine (hence APUD).Tumors of these neuroendocrine cells often draw attention because of symptoms resulting from an excess of ectopic (out of place) polypeptide hormone, e.g., ACTH from the bronchial neuroendocrine cell, and/or an excess of serotonin, resulting in the flushing, bronchoconstriction, diarrhea, [to add: sudden temper tantrums] etc. of the carcinoid syndrome. Carcinoids produce a variety of biologic amines, especially serotonin. tryptophan--> 5-OH/tryptophan--> 5-OH/tryptamin (serotonin)  serotonin------> DEAMINATED*------> 5-OH indole-acetic acid (5-HIAA) 5-HIAA measured in urine : DIAGNOSTIC TEST

This whole matter is explained and popularized in books as these: I Remember It Well: somatic memory of trauma experienced. The Body Remembers:  The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel  by Candace B., Phd. Pert, Deepak Chopra  Childhood Trauma, the Neurobiology of Adaptation and Use-dependent Development of the Brain: How States become Traits Bruce D. Perry,M.D., Ph.D. Ronnie A. Pollard, M.D.  Toi L. Blakley, M.D.  William L. Baker, MS  Domenico Vigilante The Child Trauma Academy

The Second Brain: A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine by Michael Gershon Dr. Michael Gershon has devoted his career to understanding the human bowel (the stomach, esophagus, small intestine, and colon). His thirty years of research have led to an extraordinary rediscovery: nerve cells in the gut that act as a brain. This "second brain" can control our gut all by itself. Our two brains -- the one in our head and the one in our bowel -- must cooperate. If they do not, then there is chaos in the gut and misery in the head -- everything from "butterflies" to cramps, from diarrhea to constipation. Dr. Gershon's work has led to radical new understandings about a wide range of gastrointestinal problems including gastroenteritis, nervous stomach, and irritable bowel syndrome. The Second Brain represents a quantum leap in medical knowledge and is already benefiting patients whose symptoms were previously dismissed as neurotic or "it's all in your head."

Delusions

THE HIGHLY MISLEADING Truth and Responsibility in Mental Health Practices Act:
The False Memory Movement's Remedy for a Nonexistent Problem by Judith M.Simon and its bibliography. See instead a larger and up-dated insight on trauma and its consequences and possibilities of care by two online Symposia Group Interventions After Trauma of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)-in collaboration with PsyBC and in response to the events of Sept 11th and their aftermath... Read also these subjects on the book:
Group Psychotherapy for Psychological Trauma by Robert H. Klein (Editor), Victor L. Schermer (Editor), K. Roy MacKenzie.

Any way a true Mental Health Practice does not obligatorily mean "dependency": to better understand this subject look on the sub-chapter The "rag-and-bone" shop: In treatment, the psychotherapist is in a position of power. Often, this  power is unintentionally abused. While trying to embody a compassionate concern for patients, therapists use accepted techniques that can inadvertently lead to control, indoctrination, and therapeutic failure. Contrary to the stated tradition and values of psychotherapy, they subtly coerce patients rather than respect and genuinely help them.... However, there are no regulations discouraging the more covert forms of manipulation, which are not even considered exploitative by many clinicians. Experimercial? Superstition and dupe? Chronic patients as a very profitable investment? I want  to tell you something paranoid and frightening... about our culture.... We are truly in a death culture and the drug industry is feeding it while promising life. And below quotations and scripts going into the worse of the worse GASLIGHTING, the Double Whammy, Interrogation, and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysisby Theodore L. Dorpat, Theo L. Dorpat Gaslighting: How to Drive Your Enemies Crazy by Victor Santoro

Morning Come Quickly by Wanda Karriker. A novel about a psychologist who wades with trauma survivors, many with multiple personalities, also known as dissociative identity disorder, into a landscape muddied by incest and other sexual abuse, ritual abuse inflicted by destructive cults; unethical medical and mind control experiments, child pornography intersecting with the war over false memories and the organized effort to destroy therapists who treat its casualties. The same Author in her Webpage gathers the testimonies of persons who survived from children pornography: Child Porn SURVIVORS Speak Out: Children in pornography is a common theme in survivors' accounts of incest, cult and ritual trauma, clergy abuse - about any kind of sexual abuse one can imagine.  Much attention has been given to catching viewers and suppliers of CP and to keeping children from viewing pornography on the Web.  But no one in the mainstream media, now saturated with accounts of cyberporn arrests, convictions, and abductions, is asking an important question about the survivors of CP: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Men and women who remember cameras as tools of terror are, as are all souls who have been unwitting initiates into organized evil, victims of heinous crimes against humanity.  No one can change what happened to them, but there are probably many who would want the world to know that they were tortured and forced to 'star' in CP as children and that they survived. The complete site of Italian Association, scientific and juridical, against mental, bodily and technological abuses  - even if ever lacking of the newest up-dates - is ready also as an Encyclopedic book It's Abuse NOT Science Fiction (librerie italiane or Webster.it ordini@cortinalibri.it) But this book at present needs to be modified: published on July 2005 shortly became OUT OF DATE and so required to present also consequent novelties coming from readers comments, from new deeds and MOSTLY on present-day flash-back discolosures: to manage meaning and implications of the crucial FIRST HAND testimonies, besides to check every inconsistent debate regarding their validation: on EVERY quotation should appear this quote To note that for some victims it is often easier to write than to speak UP-TO-DATE DOSSIERS of It's Abuse NOT Science fiction = Gli Abusi mentali, fisici e tecnologici NON sono Fantascienza for the time being is a supplementary book, supplementary but matching also by itself not only for propose simple improvement, rather to share some new particular important FIRST HAND documents.

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Trance as a Tool  Dennis R. WierDirector, The Trance Institute, Bruetten, Switzerland
Forewords & Introductions. Welcome of the book: The Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awarenes by Gary Zukav).
Trauma and Dreams by Deirdre Barrett (Editor) Linda Francis, Harvard University Press, 1996 (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England)
The Committee of Sleep : How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative Problem-Solving--And How You Can Too by Deirdre, Ph.D. Barrett)
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain by Louis Cozolino
FREE ONLINE TRAUMA SYMPOSIUM Presented by the American Group Psychotherapy AssociationNew York Times Company Foundation and the Aol Time Warner Foundation.
GASLIGHTING, the Double Whammy, Interrogation, and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysi  by Theodore L. Dorpat,
Kathleen SullivanThe Fourth Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conferenc, August 10 - 12, 2001 Group Psychotherapy for Psychological Trauma by Robert H. Klein (Editor), Victor L. Schermer (Editor), K. Roy MacKenzie
Morning Come Quickly by Wanda Karriker (read reviews)
I Was Taught Not to Remember Gabriella's Healing Place for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Ritual Abuse and Trauma 

Psychoanalysis as basic implement of effectual Medical Science...

However - as a person wrote having survived terrible experiences followed by many, many years of unsupportive, devalidating, re-traumatizing therapy:

skipping all my developmental phases might disqualify me from being heard? but again.... NOT.

Tranference Words are used for pointing out "deeds" but not ever these deeds are the same for the interlocutors: every one believes to be understood or to understand when instead from this deafs' speech rises a series of misjudgements and fake promises. A typical common place misconception disparages psychoanalysis as a sure way to give rise to an everlasting attitude to dependence: confusing - or rather even disowning - this basic tool of effectual Medical Science with every other kind of therapy, with whichever other technical or spontaneous condition of aid, support, counseling, assistance, listening... Instead more than a Century ago this was already the main... reversal which separated Freud and Breuer not only regarding their theories but also themselves as associates doctors (1889-1892): till then, the term TRANSFERENCE should have been considered, and its real meaning correctly defined. Of the matter of fact and on the contrary of common place banality, psychoanalysis from then became the ONLY actual way to allow whoever as sick as he/she is to go into one's own TRUE life, into one's TRUE present time, near and in TRUE relationship with real, not "imagined" present living persons and "occurrences". Therefore it is COMPELLING to take the opportunity to give a drastic explanation apt to define which are the real "facts", not to precise only the semantics of word not as a way to speak, but as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Main Entry: trans·fer·ence  Pronunciation: tran(t)s-'f&r-&n(t)s, 'tran(t)s-(") Function: noun 1 : an act, process, or instance of transferring: CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER 2 : the redirection of feelings and desires and especially of those unconsciously retained from childhood toward a new object (as a psychoanalyst conducting therapy) On regard of this term - transference - so often so much misused since confused with dependency - it is urgent to get other explanatory notes, since this redirection can be enacted not only for memories of real deeds and persons, as much also for "lived" even conscious egocentric imaginations. To transfer, as sounds the latin word trans-fero, could be translated as equivalent to "to transport", "to convey" something from there to here, and also - in the current second meaning - from a reality, from a person, from a situation of the past, or from inner self-centered feelings towards the present person(s) and occurences.  Therapy is not an ordinary social exchange between individuals. Instead, it is quite different. Consider Freud's original psychoanalytic therapy. He would sit with his back to the patient while the patient lay on the couch and free associated. Imagine talking to a friend who would not answer you! One of the characteristics of therapy is transference, where the patient begins transfer the feelings which emerge in therapy to the therapist. So, the patient may come to like or to hate the therapist. In psychoanalytic therapy, such transference is expected and is a sign of progress on the part of the patient. All this so assumes the shape of a private psycho-drama where the NEUTRAL, passive part is performed by the care-giver who, instead to - unaware - being compelled into, can willing and conscious accept to act the part lived or re-lived by the patient: here playing the role of a stage show director, in his/her ever changing psycho-drama. This explains why transference is the contrary of dependency: the task of a skilled and aware therapist is not to be ever compassionate and affectionate, but to be able to recognize how much one can be facilitated by the intense, actual emotions risìng utterly into an ever changing unconscious and spontaneous scenario. To use this possibility requires more an actor's skill than sympathy: not for being an "actor" as synonym of "liar", but "actor" as able to follow the director's orders even if totally unplanned. The transference becomes then a PRIVILEGED SET where patient's past occurences and actual flights of fancy - dumped on present interpersonal relations - can be observed almost directly, and directly "played" together. Knowing eye-witness such characteristic gives an authoritative possibility "to catch" symptomatic interpersonal misconducts: on behalf of all environmental involved people. Summarizing: to exercise this professional task does NOT consist of an only enduring "to listen" mere words, but of a powerful and lively to assist as co-protagonist the patient's incoming memories: so psychanalysis became the UNIQUE way NOT to foster dependency but to really SOLVE it. Any way in this ever changing sets and scenarios, rules of protagonists and co-protagonists every "tranference" can disappear, the true possibility of a total healing can rise and grow. Nature and health and true life are ever changing, ever NEW: health doesn't know transference; "normality" is ever to be interested, searching, longing for, to be stimulated by novelties and to foster new inner ever broad feelings. Instead every possible entangled "transference" arises and esteblishes only in a pathologic situation, derived from a pathological development, giving whenever source(s) to other repetitive mishaps. (Look a moking paradigm of such a never lasting self-referencing in Knots by R.D. Laing They are playing a game...): mightly pointing out to confirm that only a wanting past, a selfish bulk lot of worn-out believings cannot take advantage of knowledge of facts to be translated in real memories to construct deep awareness; only a wanting past doesn't adhere to actual reality and relations. A wanting whole life so continue to "shrink" itself and to coil feelings in repetitious "transferred knots", in caricatural blockages and in blocked ties. To give up such - abusive - tranferred selfish-based significances opens finally the way to the TRUE LIFE, to a healing road towards a real - not imagined - existence. What is such a true life? Stop to change others and open to accept just as they are. Could it really happen? And then: towards which direction has to heed the most suitable feelings? Surely not in selfish muddled "knots" as described by R.Laing, not on a fake "identification" which is instead a big confusion between "in" and "out" not only mixed together then moreover not recognized in a total unawareness. On the contrary a veritable self centered appraisal does not be called "egotism": it is the effective personal "instrument" to consider and accept every "outside": only with this attitude one can never be willing to change this "outside" since to change oneself for better focusing on making shifts and changes in oneself, as the unique way when one alone can positively change any relationship in his life. A descriptive story better than boring explanation can impress this concept: so well stressed by the basic assertion that  if I want to transform any significant relationship in my life, I can stop trying to change others and open to accepting and loving everyone just as they are. Breakthrough With Dad In my younger years, my relationship with my dad was lousy. I often considered him my nemesis. Yet as I gradually worked on improving all my relationships and deepened my commitment to choosing what's best for all of us, I eventually knew it was time to heal my old wounds with dad. Below is the inspiring story of how I was able to have a major breakthrough with dad. Through this and many similar experiences in my life, I've come to see ever more clearly how one person alone can change even a very difficult relationship. With two years completely immersed in another world away from family and friends, I'd had plenty of opportunities to reflect on my life back home. In those periods of contemplation, I felt a deep sense of satisfaction in realizing that I had come to really enjoy my relationships with all of my friends and family back home with only one major exception—Dad. As a child, I had very mixed feelings about my father. He took us on wonderful, exciting vacations car camping around the country for a month out of each year. In his engaging moments with me and my sister and two brothers, he could be adventurous, enthusiastic, and a lot of fun. Yet, like so many fathers out there, most of the time he was distant and unavailable. As a minister and a fighter for peace and justice, his work was by far his greatest passion with family a distant second. What's more, at meals—our only regular gathering time each day—he would all too often preach politics to us, his unwilling captive audience. There was no debating him, either. He was always right. Yet in looking back, I could see now what I once would never have admitted—that I was just as stubborn as dad. There was no way I would acknowledge that he was right in a debate or argument. I would argue with him fiercely, yet still he managed to get me every time. I remember countless times when our interactions ended with me stalking off frustrated and angry, as dad settled back triumphantly into his chair reading the newspaper. Sometimes I just hated him. His righteous attitude seemed so hypocritical and just wrong! After moving away from home at age 18, I had dedicated myself to improving my relationships with my family and others in my life. Thanks to some wonderful divine guidance, I had been successful with everyone except dad. He was the one person I still just couldn't get along with. As I contemplated leaving the wonderfully rich experience in China, I knew that the time had come to change this. I knew that on getting home, if I wanted to get along better with him, my job was to learn to let dad be dad. I realized that I could not change him, but I could change myself by letting go of my need to be right and of my harsh judgments of him and his behavior. I knew that If I wanted to change our frustrating dynamic, I was the one who would have to change. The idea came to me that the best way to heal this old family wound was to move in with dad and make a commitment to opening my heart and to becoming friends with him for the first time in my life. I knew it would not be easy. Yet I also knew that if I could hold fast to my intention of not letting his comments get to me and not needing to be right, we could have a breakthrough. I wrote dad a letter asking if he was interested in becoming friends, and if he would be open to my living with him on return from China to work on this. Dad was thrilled at the idea of us becoming friends and warmly welcomed me into his home. He was very supportive of my desire to move through our difficulties. He even spruced up a little room in his house for me. Yet after a brief, enjoyable "honeymoon" period of about two months, I found those same old patterns staring me right in the face again. Dad again was always right and I ended up leaving frustrated, knowing that I was actually right—just like old times. Why did it always have to end up that way? Yet I held to my commitment. I remembered that If I wanted to change this disempowering dynamic, I was the one who would have to change. So gradually, I learned to hold me tongue. When discussion turned to debate, I would do my very best not to engage, not to get caught up in trying to prove him wrong. If the conversation turned competitive, I learned to be quiet and to wait for the appropriate moment to excuse myself, so that I could go let off steam on my own. Even though I still didn't agree with him, I slowly learned to simply listen and to be OK with letting dad have the last word. I couldn't change his behavior or beliefs, but I was gradually changing mine. Those few months were tough. I's not easy to break deeply ingrained family patterns, but I was committed. Every time things spun out of control, I reminded myself of my deep intention to become friends with dad and even to love him. By holding strong to that commitment, I got increasingly better at pulling back whenever our talks didn't feel supportive. By the end of six months, I had done it! I could sit through a converation where dad was telling me how I was wrong and feel no need to engage or respond. When he challenged or blamed me, I could just let him have his say. I learned to just acknowledge that I heard him, remembering not to take anything personally and to just let dad be dad. As I got better at this, I eventually came to understand that dad was not consciously trying to attack me. He was just playing out old patterns and programming within himself. I could accept and even love him just the way he was—even the part of him that wouldn't admit he was wrong. Dad seemed to notice the difference, too. I especially remember one particular day when dad was doing his thing. I simply nodded my head occasionally and said "I hear you, dad," without feeling any need to defend myself. At one point he fell silent and I just sat quietly waiting. Then I heard words I don't think I'd ever heard him say in these circumstances, "Well, Fred, what do you think?" And for the first time, I felt my dad was really listening to me. From that point on, though we still would hit occasional rough spots, dad and I began having meaningful conversations. He became increasingly interested in my opinion and his tone of voice lost that cutting edge. For the first time ever, we were actually friends! What an incredibly empowering change in my life - in our lives! I was amazed that although my deep intention was just to let dad be who he was, once I made the big shift, dad shifted, too! What a gift!!! From that point on, our relationship gradually grew warmer and deeper. Many years later for my dad's 70th birthday, I recorded his fascinating life story on over two hours of tape. What great, rich stories he had! What a wonderful, bonding time we shared!!! What a long way we've come! Thanks, dad, for being such a wonderful presence in my life. And I give thanks for the divine guidance which helped me to realize that if I want to transform any significant relationship in my life, I can stop trying to change others and open to accepting and loving everyone just as they are. By focusing on making shifts and changes in myself, I now know without a doubt that I alone can positively change any relationship in my life. Re-living and transfert Relived memories any time can come to the surface: highly redeeming, but more often if provided and well-directed: the more if supported by participation, they not only cease to be inimical, not only silence at long last and forever the "monsters", but also can even transform earlier unbearable sensations into true, profound, enriching EXPERIENCES. On the contrary: if these relived memories/ evidences are NOT collected , NOT believed or even worse derided and opposed, taken for delirium or slanders, in their turn aggravate the sleep of reason and at a wide range breed new self-reproducing monsters, not manageable, often irretrievably destructive. (For information on the so called "critical experiences" leading to disrupt the capacities to modulate emotions and pertinent psychic defence mechanisms see Trauma and dissociation and also the related pages in the main Psychiatric Text DSM-IV. And for farther data on uncollected, unbelieved or even worse derided memories and emotions see the Italian file/chapter Imbroglio è il contrario di sviluppo [= to coil reflects to involve; then: the contrary of to develop? At a good side: can to uncoil assist development once restored past embroils? Or at a bad side: synonyms of involved are embroiled /misled, meaning also FRAUD] with its new adds and links and also the file/chapter TOTEM AND TABOO revisited: awful and feritle rise of new SUPERSTITIONS foundamental on this subject. Luckily not even this must inevitably fall into an absolutely unavoidable fate: NOBODY - no matter how ill they are - can be totally prevented from being able, if wanting to follow or to regain a personal course of life. NOT every one - no matter how "sick" - is hindered in becoming herself/himself and will do follow the personal way. The citation below shows how a basic personal structure can make always exist: no matter how much suffering, nobody is doomed to become a submissive, a-critical follower of teachers, gurus, or even unreliable therapists, neither during a hard and longlasting psychanalytic care. These quotes below are very important to deny and refute the wrong common place idea regarding psychanalisis itself, and point out how every one is NOT so easily dependent even on parents themselves, to testify how and why does NOT "transference" and the person object of transference steal personal willing: how NOT every one is predestined to be a "follower".   It is true. I don't always follow. I can't follow my parents. But I can't  defend myself against them. I have to run, have to hide to protect me. Seeing a book review, badly written but profound... talking about the t raumatized patient seeing in the therapist a defective "holding container"... then talking about what happens when the therapist reinforces a false self...: how destructive it is to the patient. Many people... many many... there is  distress... reaching out... the person on the other end does not want to hear it or so it seems... So the patient is harmed by the fact that she switches back into another personality... one who is perceived by the helping person as "now you are yourself again"... [My therapist] suddenly became very  dangerous to me... emotionally abusive. and I decided that I didn't deserve so much bad treatment. I should leave her. I suddenly knew it was time to stop therapy rather than being destroyed by therapists. I was very unwilling and frightened to try again... But not only one's heed - even "fake-love" - could be "tranferred" on "persons": also not human, rather every kind of formal entities can collapse into similar failure of reality; and if the fashion to "use and throw" is surely to be condemned, this does NOT regard when the CONCRETENESS of deeds is confused with static mental images. Therefore also on objects, situations, fixed pseudo-feelings, fixed belief empty tranferts without future can interfere perceptions, till to intercept awareness, possibilities. Absurd, fixed transferts disable full existences to persist obstinately in following and searching and recognizing only repetitive ways: and this continue to occur in an everlasting incongruity regardless with echology and personal homeostasis, since NEVER SYNTONIZEABLE with the ever mobile outer environment and inner body's existence. In these deteriorating vicious circles, persons, feelings, situations, objects go on endlessly UNCONSCIOUSLY to remodel old feelings into FETICHES: it is to say that emotions and opinions become themselves new SUPERSTITIONS instead to stand for  "warm-hearted memories" or for hypothesis getting through to new experiences. Conscious experience, i.e. the human deepeness given by the FOURTH DIMENSION of the lived time is the way to the fullness of existence: in fact the consciousness of one's past and one's emotions - no matter what that past and those emotions were and still are - substantially contributes to determine what is defined as a person's solidity (as opposite to fatuity, inconsistency). Every consciously borne experience not only pertains to the - after all banal - reason, but it is the root of true MATURITY, capable of personal WISDOM: from which can emanate a fount of vital culture for all. (This is more or less the meaning of the celebrated line by Shakespeare RIPENESS IS ALL, King Lear, Act v scene v) As written above, typical commonplace disregard disparages psychoanalysis as a - wrongly presumed - sure way to give rise to an everlasting attitude to dependence: this typical commonplace confusing this basic tool of effectual Medical Science with every other kind of therapy, with whichever other technical or spontaneous condition of aid, counselling, assistance, listening. On the contrary psychoanalysis is the ONLY actual way to allow anyone- no matter how ill he/she is - to enter one's own TRUE life, one's TRUE present time, in contact and in TRUE relationship with real, not "imagined" persons and "occurrences" living in the present. Differently from any other kind of therapy or aid - however long and painful - psychonalysis for its very nature of revelation of transferts (strictly plural), can only GIVE BACK and NOT rob a person of the capacities for recognition and decision. This - chronologically - is the first great discovery by Freud, opening the possibilities of distinguishing and therefore resolving dependences once identified by their very nature of TRANSFERT. The "rag-and-bone" shop Apropos of the word "transfert" a flat specification - more factual than semantic - is MUCH NEEDED to resolve a series of equivocations and false expectations. The word, derived from Latin, literally means to transfer, that is to say to transport, to convey something from there to here, including relived emotions that are unconsciously piled up by people or objects from the past, or by present fantasy on people and situations - instead separate, differential, NEUTRAL, moreover unconscious and all together unaware. (All this muddle of "times removed", fantastical attributions, psuedo-rationalistic misunderstandings is poetically described and evidenced in the  jocking chapters of  Knots by R.D. Laing They are playing a game...). Whoever its object is, he/she is entirely overcharged with other's lived memories, without understanding neither their nature nor their reason - whereas the subject tends to react, deceived in his/her expectations and pseudo-convictions: every moment of such pseudo-relationships can only give cause to an endless talk to the winds - wherefrom very tenacious entangled dependences derive. On the contrary, when the speaker is in a position to accept that a transfert is being enacted - as did Freud in contrast with Breuer - , it becomes possible to re-transform such a sterile meeting between incommunicable entities into a factive dialogue: or even much more to help actively the "protagonist" on recognizing his real intents, willings, needs, memories... Chronologically this has been the Freud's first GREAT DISCOVERY, which sanctioned the incompatibility between his method and that of Breuer (1889-92): in a practical sense all this presupposes that one is in a position to consent to play the part of an actor, if not of a dummy in an inner performance by the person who plays an active part - in the case of therapy: the patient. Performing the actor in this series of private psychodramas impede them to be fixed as "dependences" and "ties", but it is not always an easy task for a ... not "professional actor". Notwithstanding just these difficulties are very rewarding and give another advantage: the conscious commitment places the therapist in an extremely privileged position: under his/her eyes and in his/her emotionally to play actor role, the doctor in charge can not only apprehend but also personally ASCERTAIN the situations the patient/producer not only "tells" but also expounds and presentifies - unconsciously, but in a very effective manner. Should one comply with the patient's relived memories and accept not to take an active part in them in a misunderstood bond? As Freud discovered more than a Century ago only in this way  the true possibility of RECOVERY from a past no longer gangrening materializes. And then, only when every transfert has DISAPPEARED, one can move towards a full admittance to the true renewed personality. NORMALITY, relating to the present changeable reality - see the whole file Anamnesis? A way for healing... - is NEVER structured into static formations, into interpersonal relations endlessly entangled in themselves - see again the playful paradigm on their indelible self-referentiality in Knots by R.D. Laing. Only when coming from a faulty past adhesion to reality, and recognizing the novelty of RELATIONS - in their mobile and enriching interchange - one finds himself/herself plunge into from one moment to the next one, no more contracted and enrolled in repetitive pathological transferts, in grotesque blocked knots and blocking ties. The dissolving of transferts, the loss/renunciation of meanings arbitrarily given to undue transferences, to shift from emotions only SUBJECTIVELY referred to something and someone on something else and someone else, opens at last the way to TRUE LIFE: if not to "the joy of living" at least to LIVING and not vegetating lost in isolated world and in the void of one's fancies, expectations and fears. Could allow then a true recovery prevent badly digested memories, give the faculty to replace bad memories and/or inconsistent imagination with lived suffered EXPERIENCES? Why it is instead so longlasting and not ever granted for a so from a Century tested therapy to break such an extreme solitude, in its selfihness and incapacity to acknowledge one's role in the world? Why is so unfair to suppose that it could be simple and effortless and quick and granted to come out from a repetitive, narrow, monotonic past: any way believed to be the undisputed source of foreseeable convictions? Why seems so painful give up the funnel-shaped structure of the "pathologic"? Why disparage oneself freedom and dignity and mind in favour of an always hierarchical world in its superiority/inferiority, and magic or anyway fideistic in its substantial? In reality it is biased to simplify and naively think that to convoy towards a "normality" - never previously known nor even imagined - should be ever rewarded and at first thanked: it is fearful to manage a future without a sure "guidance", it is also difficult and heavy to renounce to turn own's mishaps against external pseudo-enemies. But for the actor/therapist is hard personally to not fall not enough ready in persecutory sets where "dependency" is changed in persecutory disapproval, nor can one deceptively confide that it could be easy to "sacrifice" the illusion of being capable to stand as "prophets" (more or less of "woe" or of "sensational miracles"). On the matter of fact this can be accomplished, but only with an unpredictable lot of time and patience and only if the "actor rule" could be well played without surrender not only when the director/patient requires a rule of a fake-guru but also when it should match as a persecuting "enemy". To set off in an open, new, varied, variable and diversified world rouses dismay and an anxious wish for denial, hence it is not even desirable to accelerate the entrance into the wide breath and mutability of NORMALITY - viable but unpredictable. But meanwhile - following the road to vix medicatric Naturae - the process tends to go on by itself autonomously. When accepted, little by little the frightened dismay dissolves into more bearable, realistic bewilderment. When false transferts cease to occupy all the room available in an egocentric confusion between the inner self that does not recognize himself/herself and a non-existent outer that represents merely a mirror of it, the slipping away from this poverty of second-hand recycling at last can allow true choices. When the waste of a badly digested past or impositions do no longer authorize the empty prophesying, then attention, pre-cautions, vigilance find their place again. Then true affections, the true sense of responsibility, appear: TRUE not only because they are in agreement with personal taste and style, but also because they calibrate from time to time according to the - by now well recognized and assessed - actual circumstances. This not only implies "sacrifices", but also offers a farther prize to the real self, cleaned from the remnants of a PAST never really passed. To enter the unforeseeable future free from useless apprehensions allows to blossom and to bear fruit in successive EVOLUTIONS, but also the PRESENT blossoms again, now charged with "intensity" and fullness, and can at long last express itself even and IN EVERY MOMENT in that basic, continuing exclusive right that consists in the power to recognize and declare I LIKE IT/ I DON'T LIKE IT.

REFERENCES on very precocious memory: A new-born's keen, wide-awake eyes...  look at a newborn baby, bright-eyed, gazing straight at you? Is there really a person there? (Take a look on the site APPPAH source of the image above) (look on the contrary the "fashion" to oblige babies on prone position.) Published online before print June 24, 2002, 10.1073/pnas.152159999;  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 99, Issue 14, 9602-9605, July 9, 2002 Psychology Eye contact detection in humans from birth Making eye contact is the most powerful mode of establishing a communicative link between humans. During their first year of life, infants learn rapidly that the looking behaviors of others conveys significant information. Two experiments were carried out to demonstrate special sensitivity to direct eye contact from birth. The first experiment tested the ability of 2- to 5-day-old newborns to discriminate between direct and averted gaze. Teresa Farroni*, Gergely Csibra*, Francesca Simion, and Mark H. Johnson*  * Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, University of Padua, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padua, Italy Edited by Michael I. Posner, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, and approved May 16, 2002 (received for review March 19, 2002) In the second experiment, we measured 4-month-old infants' brain electric activity to assess neural processing of faces when accompanied by direct (as opposed to averted) eye gaze. The results show that, from birth, human infants prefer to look at faces that engage them in mutual gaze and that, from an early age, healthy babies show enhanced neural processing of direct gaze.The exceptionally early sensitivity to mutual gaze demonstrated in these studies is arguably the major foundation for the later development of social skills. Note: a whole session of an International Congress of many years ago: 5th International Congress of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1977 Rome,     See  the URL of the society APPPAH (american): for bibliography Resources 100 Books (And Videos, Tools) or of the European ISPPM endowing a very wide bibliography and  archives.       --------       International Congresses of the ISPPM: 1986 - Badgastein / Austria The Contribution of Prenatal Psychology to Preventive Medicine, Preventive Psychology and Preventive Aspects of the Socially-Oriented Professions 1989 - Jerusalem / Israel Encounter with the Unborn 1992 - Cracow / Poland The Unborn Child within the Family" 1995 - Heidelberg / Germany A Time to be born 1998 - London / United Kingdom Conscious Birth The Experience of a Lifetime 2000 - Cagliari / Italy Prenatal Psychology: Methodology in Research 2001 - Sydney / Australia Bridging the Gap: Prenatal and Postnatal Life 2002 - Budapest / Hungaria The Importance of Prenatal Psychic Space for the Individual and Society: Towards an Integration of Medical, Psychological and Psychoanalytical Aspects of Prenatal Development. 2005 - Heidelberg / Germany The Anthropology and Psychology of Pregnancy and Birth 2007 – Moscow / Russia The Unborn Child and Society APPPAH was founded in 1983 by Toronto psychiatrist and psychologist Thomas R. Verny, M.D., D.Psych., F.R.C.P.C., as a forum for individuals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines interested in psychological dimensions of prenatal and perinatal experiences. Typically, this includes childbirt educators, birth assistants, doulas, midwives, obstetricians, nurses, social workers, perinatologists, pediatricians, psychologists, counselors, researchers, and teachers at all levels. One does not have to be a professional, however: all who share these interests are welcome to join.  The Association has published the Pre- & Perinatal Psychology Journal quarterly since the Fall o 1986. Beginning with volume 12 (1) Fall, 1997 the title of the journal will be Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. This peer-reviewed journal is now published by the Association. On a quarterly schedule, the Association publishes The APPPAH Newsletter. Terry Larimore is Editor. The Newsletter is sent automatically to members. Regarding contributions, please contact the Editor. One Hundred Books (and Videos Too) is revised annually and covers publications and releases in the last fifteen years. APPPAH (Association for Pre- & Perinatal Psychology and Health) 340 Colony Rd., Geyserville, CA 95441. Maureen Wolfe, C.N.M., Executive Director Collaborations, Tel: 707-857-4041, Fax 707-857-4042  E-mail: apppah@aol.com PSYCHOMEDIA Telematic Review Section: LIFE CYCLE  Area: Pre- and Perinatal Redazione dell'Area: Antonio Imbasciati, Anna Della Vedova Milani and Gidoni investigate the development of fetal movements. They have discovered the fetus´s ability to move and quiet itself. They have discovered correlations to patter of movement long before birth; these movements, with which the fetus has for some time experimented, allow for an active participation in the birth process as well as for survivaloutside of the womb; fetal movements can not longer be relegated to early primitive reflexes. That, according to Milani and Gidoni, the newborn has his own competencies need not further be emphasized here, though perhaps, that both also ascribe competencies to a newborn even though he may be premature, or for some other reason congenitively damaged. A study carried out at the University of Leicester, to be shown on BBC's Child Of Our Time (Wednesday July 11 2003, BBC1, 9pm) reveals for the first time that babies remember sounds they heard in the womb and recognize them well into later life. The study, by Dr Alexandra Lamont from the Music Research Group at the University's School of Psychology, demonstrates how one-year-old babies recognize music they were exposed to up to three months before birth. The discovery explodes the theory that babies can only remember things for a month or two and suggests that memory could last a great deal longer than that. “!in order to improve the quality of humanity, it is necessary to improve the quality of its life since the conception!â€�  (P. F. Freyberg). THE PRENATAL EXPERIENCE WITHIN NEUROSCIENCES, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION  PARMA,  24-25 May 2008 Auditorium Hall of the Parma University Consciousness To be conscious at a very infantile age and even to can describe memories? Biological and very precocious - animal - consciousness? Last but not least: look also at the actual Italian document shared with the - recently improved - Italian file/chapter titled for  a recurring nightmare, and read in English the book and bibliography presented by this Author: Lenore Terr Unchained memories Unfortunately not everybody can enjoy a lucky birth: a difficult, painful, even if not terrifying and life-endagering birth can cause a lot of damaging feelings during one's whole life. This misfortune can be overcome like every other trauma, but like every other trauma only when the ill-fated persons are able, or better still: only when they are brave enough to take out from unconscious body-memories their birth's true sensations and can so understand and accept their risky entry into life.. (Refer to the classic book written by Freud's direct disciple Otto Rank The Trauma of Birth (International Library of Psychology).

(da Joseph P. Orwell lI libro dei senza paura - Manuale per vincere ed affrontare le paure da piccoli - Dami Editore)

...not all think so...

- Children don't understand...,
- No matter: children forget everything...,
- Don't warn: the children surely won't notice.... and so on.