How Do Babies Experience Their Births?
Birth trauma is one of the most extensively studied of all the traumas that affect large numbers of people, yet it is an area in which the majority of the population remain completely unconscious....
View ArticleHow Do We Re-enact the Effects of Early Trauma in Our Lives?
One of the most confusing, and generally least understood effects of experiencing emotional shock and/or traumatisation is the way in which our body and our psyche become conditioned. This...
View ArticleA History of Prenatal Psychology
Many cultures have had an inherent awareness that the time we spend in the womb is of critical importance This time is not only important in terms of our physical development, but also in terms of our...
View ArticleWhat Effects does being Born by Caesarean Section have on Babies?
Caesarean Sections are often thought to be a safer, more risk-free way of giving birth for both mother and baby. The rationale for this is down to thinking that since the baby is not being squeezed...
View ArticleBirth Trauma – a Cultural Blind Spot
This article by Matthew Appleton is reproduced here with his permission. Matthew is a Craniosacral Therapist and Psychotherapist working in Bristol, and has extensive experience working with the...
View ArticleAdoption, Trauma and Support
Adoption has been in the news recently Not only has the government undertaken a major review of the entire adoption system, with a focus on reforming and speeding up the process, but there have been a...
View ArticleCan Prenatal & Birth Trauma Cause Attachment Problems in Babies & Children?
Most of the research into understanding Attachment and the development of Attachment Theory focuses on the interactions that parents have with their babies throughout infancy and early childhood. ....
View ArticlePrenatal & Birth Psychology goes Mainstream
For those of you who don’t know about them, the TEDTalks lectures are a series of short inspiring talks on cutting edge ideas across a wide spectrum of life. I was thrilled, and a little shocked to...
View ArticleDental Trauma – a personal journey
As some of you know, about 6 weeks ago I started getting some really bad toothache that was due to one of my molars being cracked. The dentist told me that I really only had two options, an extraction...
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Musings on Creativity & Craniosacral Therapy
One of the things that i have been fascinated with for some time is the relationship we have with our creativity and the different ways in which this can be enhanced, or substantially inhibited. I have...
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