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@empiricalmarkets.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 10:15 AM

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 7:30 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 5, p. 55

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“WE AIN’T BORN TYPICAL”

Page 55

…which remains as a touchstone in the field in its depth and detail. Imprints: The Lifelong Effects of the Birth Experience, published in 1983, among other things places birth as the determining factor in creating basic personality constructs, called sympathetic and parasympathetic, which roughly coincide with the more common terms introversion and extroversion. Janov’s work is more empirical and neurophysiologically rooted than most in the field, and this was especially true of this work.

Nevertheless, while the book is recognized in the field, Janov and his work have not gotten anywhere near the respect and attention they deserve. His therapy involving having deep feeling experiences, primaling, of all kinds — his primal therapy, involving the re-experience of anger, sadness, grief, childhood, early life, birth, and  painful events from all other times in life and involving the re- experience and release of all possible feelings — is reduced to and  ridiculed as “primal scream therapy,” from the provocative title of his first book.


Thus, both lay and professional folk have participated in a slander of his therapy, giving the inaccurate impression — purposely, for some, no doubt — that his therapy involves merely eliciting screams in his clients.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 6:48 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 5, p. 54

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In fact, she considers the cutting of the umbilical cord to be central in her theory of trauma, calling it the crisis umbilicus, and echoes Fodor in claiming that it is the true origin of the castration fears made so much of in psychoanalysis. This is so because, according to Feher, the cord and placenta is an object of security and is considered by the fetus to be part of him- or herself. Thus, this cutting represents a supreme threat in being a separation from a total life support system, a major organ, a part of oneself.

In these ways, she also brings forward for renewed appreciation Rank’s speculations on the element of separation trauma as a crucial element of the birth trauma.

Arthur Janov — Primal Therapy, Traumas of Birth and Early Life and Healing Them, Empirical Foundations and Neurophysiology of Early Events and Healing 

Perhaps the major theorist and popularizer of the phenomenon of re- experience (which he termed primaling), Arthur Janov was reluctant to  acknowledge the pervasiveness of pre- and perinatal re-experience and trauma. Yet when he did, it was in a major work on birth trauma,

"The cutting of the umbilical cord was said to be the true origin of castration fears."
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 6:37 AM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS: The Necessary Hero & The Prenatal Matrix of Human Events* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 8, p. 75

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RETURN TO GRACE

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…what mind records these memories otherwise, he said. As I put it, in words remarkably like his, as quoted from Falls from Grace (2014), where this article ended up being published as Section Two, Chapters 6 through 18 of that book of mine:

Proof of “God”

Some of these experiences, especially in the parapsychological realm (such as ESP, clairvoyance, and ancestral memories), have even found verification with an astonishing degree of accuracy in Grof’s follow-up research. Even the primal perspective, which points to the existence of memory and consciousness at the fetal, single cell, and sperm and egg level, certainly would have to acknowledge such awareness to have more subtle underpinnings than the brain and spinal cord.

All of this points to the existence of something that is subtler than the physical body and undergirds the entire length of one’s physical life. The evidence also seems to suggest that this subtler self permeates much of matter and life in realms outside of the personal domain and therefore can be accurately termed transpersonal.1

Subsequently, primalers had the support they needed to go into the early prenatal, the cellular, and…
@yubinalena.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 8:58 PM

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 8:31 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 5, p. 54

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Importantly, a relief of symptoms seemed to follow from the re- experience of these birth memories. They came to the conclusion  that a birth imprint occurs, which is induced by the extreme stress of that time and is resistant to fading from later experience. Further they asserted that this imprint could be the cause of a wide spectrum of psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders.

Leslie Feher — Psychoanalysis, Birth, Cutting of Umbilical Cord, Separation Trauma

Leslie Feher (1980) sought to extend the Freudian tradition farther back into areas that, she asserts, were until only recently unknowable. Thus, she describes a natal theory and therapy that includes experiences of cutting the umbilical cord, birth, and even prebirth.

In fact, she considers the cutting of the umbilical cord to be central in her theory of trauma, calling it the crisis umbilicus, and echoes Fodor in claiming that it is the true origin of the castration fears made so much of in psychoanalysis.

The cutting of the umbilical cord was said to be the true origin of castration fears.
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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 7:20 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 5, p. 53

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Still, professionals and theorists who sanction the practices and beliefs of an era or paradigm will always be lifted up for acclaim. That is, they are until the next paradigm becomes dominant, at which point they are seen as conciliatory, even as apologists for the matrix/paradigm in effect at the time. Truly, the radical formulations to be advanced by Janov, Grof, deMause, and myself later, among many who could be named from the 1970s on, were not to be had in 1958.

Later Research and Theorists: Hypnosis, Primal Therapy, and Birth

Cheek and LeCron — Hypnosis, Birth Memories and Imprints on Personality, and Relation to Psychiatric Disorders

David Cheek and Leslie LeCron (1968) used hypnosis to retrieve early memories in their patients. They discovered that memories earlier than what they expected, going back to birth, were possible…

“WE AIN’T BORN TYPICAL”

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 8:31 AM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS: The Necessary Hero & The Prenatal Matrix of Human Events* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 8, p. 74

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or for audio: www.amazon.com/Wounded-Deer...

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Had liberated souls gone through a kind of primal therapy on their way to enlightenment? It seemed to be so. 

Also, I found that scientific measurements of brain wave and other aspects of brain function coincided at advanced levels of both the primal and spiritual processes: Both kinds of practitioners — primalers and meditators — had extraordinarily easy access to theta and delta wave patterns, for example. Lastly, I was able to show that the terminology, with, at the most, slight adjustments in the perspective, in both spiritual and primal processes corresponded in nearly every case. 

Proof of Soul ... God?

In the article that resulted from this project and was published, six years later, in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (1985), I broke from Janov in asserting a valid spirituality and the possible existence of a God or Spirit beyond our physical confines. Remember that Peerbolte pointed out that existence of memory from before conception and at conception indicated the existence of a soul. For…

WOMB WITH A VIEW — THE PRENATAL AND PERINATAL UNCONSCIOUS

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 7:36 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 5, p. 53

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1st half: sillymickel.blogspot.com/2019/08/1st-...
2nd half: sillymickel.blogspot.com/2019/08/glob...

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“WE AIN’T BORN TYPICAL”

Page 53

…sanctioning as it does the status quo, requiring no change (but allowing for no improvement, either), that is repeated endlessly. Put another way, Winnicott is touted as an important figure in the history of child development because he went along with what parents and professionals wanted to believe about child-rearing/parenting (including their own of both) and did not make waves. Since this book asserts that we need radical changes in prenatal, birth, and child-caring/parenting to bring about the access to the deeper human nature required for the survival of Earth’s life, his concession is important and represents a stumbling block, to the extent that it is still bandied about by child development professionals.

Further, he rationalized that birth was a good thing, if done correctly, in contributing to ego strength. And he rationalized that the true self could be helped by the false self. People who want to “make nice” like this in the midst of contrasting theories and views are often highly regarded. In his defense, he could only be the product of his times; indeed, in the ways mentioned above, for example, the true and false selves and his views on therapy, he challenged some prevailing notions.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 2:42 AM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 5, p. 52

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Concessions to the Status Quo

Still, a product of his times, he could not break completely with his  culture and society, and he rationalized all kinds of child-care (child- rearing) as being “good enough,” in that they did not result in overt  psychopathology. Although there are almost always covert psychopathologies, we later discovered, in even the most “normal” of us which can erupt at any time.

There is no doubt in my mind that this concession to the norms of the child-caring of his time and to the truisms about child development and “rearing” embedded in the psychology of it accounts for the much greater regard accorded Winnicott, of all in the prenatal and perinatal field. Despite this, interestingly, his prenatal and perinatal understandings are hidden from child development texts. Not coincidentally, it is his “good enough” rationalization of the majority of child-rearing, non-confrontational as it is and…

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 7:39 AM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS: The Necessary Hero & The Prenatal Matrix of Human Events* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Chapter 8, p. 74

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WOMB WITH A VIEW — THE PRENATAL AND PERINATAL UNCONSCIOUS

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…left behind, in 1972. In my bachelor’s thesis I sought to discover whether spirituality and God were real or were results of primal pain, as Arthur Janov contended. While approaching the project from Janov’s perspective and not entertaining spiritual interpretations in the least, I was shocked to both begin experiencing spiritual experiences in my primaling, which could not have roots in my primal pain, and to come across other primalers who were having spiritual, transpersonal experiences in their inner work as well.

Validity of Some Spiritual/Transpersonal Experiences

Furthermore, research into the literature and findings of this new field and into corresponding spiritual literature led me to discover, not only that such spiritual experiences were being encountered in deep experiential psychotherapy ... Grof’s work was significant here ... but also that some primal experiences of the not so spiritual kind were remarkably like experiences that had been described as being encountered on their spiritual path by enlightened souls both currently and in previous times ... Guru Swami Muktananda’s autobiography (1974) was significant in this respect. Had liberated souls gone through a kind of primal therapy on their way to enlightenment? It seemed to be so.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 9:34 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 5, p. 52

🧵Click panel below for Thread, complete book

or, for kindle: www.amazon.com/Wounded-Deer...

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Play Therapy and Reevaluations of Ego and Id

Descending as he did from the Freudian tradition — Winnicott was a student of psychoanalyst, Melanie Klein — still, Winnicott, like some others being mentioned here, differed with Freud, not just in his interpretations of selves, or components of the psyche, but in the way to do therapy. He saw the psychoanalytic framework involving an authoritarian analyst and a compliant client as fostering the false self. Instead he used play, in his therapies, as a way to bring out and foster connection with the true self, which he saw as having components of creativity, wholeness, and well-being.

Indeed, in seeing this component of personality, the true self — what Freud might interpret as the id — as being a source of healing, creativity, and growth, as opposed to the healing force emanating from the “rational” ego, his therapy was a turnabout on Freud’s. Similarly, his interpretation of what Freud would undoubtedly have called the ego as being a false self — one which blocks real aliveness, connection to others, and creativity, and is comprised of defenses seen as much less useful and necessary as Freud’s defenses were seen to be — is a similar significant revisioning of psychoanalytic understanding.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 8:39 AM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS: The Necessary Hero & The Prenatal Matrix of Human Events* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Chapter 8, p. 73

🧵Click this panel for Thread, complete book

or for paperback: www.amazon.com/Wounded-Deer...

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Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Overview — Later Theorists: The Author

Michael Adzema — Primal Therapy, Spirituality, Primal Process as Spiritual Process, Soul, Proof of “God”

A Primal Perspective on Spirituality

As a theorist and pioneer in this field as well, I need to give an overview of my work.

Having completed primal therapy in Denver, I presented the cumulative project for the B.A., in 1978, that I had years previously…

RETURN TO GRACE

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 9:03 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 5, p. 51

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Furthermore, and slightly different from Janov, the significance of the true and false self for the purposes of the perinatal is that Winnicott saw the origins of the true and false selves as being in early infancy, related to the acquiring of satisfaction of needs in that early state. While Janov traces the beginnings of the split that far back, he stresses the consolidation of the unreal self and the near total split with the real self as occurring at a singular event occurring at the around age of four or five — the primal scene. The primal scene is the significant precipitating event causing one to give up one’s struggle to stay real and to surrender to the unreal. Aside from this difference in emphasis, the two are very much in agreement.

However, the qualification I need to make regarding his conceptualizations versus Janov’s is that Winnicott saw value in the false self as somehow retaining the interests of the true self. In this way, he saw the false self — as Freud thought as well for his ego, only even more so — as having a function. This is completely unlike Janov who saw the unreal self as being something completely inauthentic which blocks the expression of the real self and needs to be overthrown, “violently,” as Janov put it. Thus Winnicott, in terms of the valuation and view of the ego/unreal self/false self holds a midway point between the positions of Freud and Janov.

“WE AIN’T BORN TYPICAL”

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