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A brief description is given of the development of Frank Lake's theory of the origin of certain fundamental disorders of personality in the emotional distress transmitted by the mother to the fetus. The theory can be stated as follows: "The behavioral reactions of a pregnant mother affect her fetus in ways which contribute to its perceptions of itself and of its environment in the womb; and these perceptions persist into adult life".Some evidence for the particular importance of what occurs in the first trimester of pregnancy is presented.
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This paper will present a verbatim account of an abreaction to the prenatal trauma of a blow to the mother's abdomen with its subsequent effects on the physical and emotional development of the person and its sequalae in adult life.The patient, whom we Tess, presented with the psychosomatic complaint of dermatitis. In this session, the dialogue concerns the exploration of this symptom and its significance to the personality. It reveals that the prenatal trauma became associated with a fear of expressing her wants and needs, resulting in a breaking out of the skin.
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