Frank Lake’s Material-Fetal Distress Syndrome and Primal Integration workshops-Part II

A brief description is given of the development o Frank Lake’s theory of the origin certain fundamental
disorders of perso’The behavioral reactions of a pregnent mother afftet her fetus in ways which contributes to its perceptions of itself and its environment in the womb; and these perceptions into adult life”.
Some evidence for the particular importance of what occurs in the first trimester of pregnancy is presented . Preliminary analysis of result from a suvey of 170 participants in six-day primal inegration worksops at Nottingham, England, is given, together with a description of the principal elements of therapeutic change employed.