Womb as Paradise Lost

Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part 2 – Prolegomena
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ergy. This leads to a “frozen emotional life” with all phenotypical and
genotypical attendant consequences, starting with uteral developments,
Foetal programming. 138
7.4 Hypothetic-deductive method as process strategy
Doctors, therapists and other health professionals face the task to find, together
with the man requesting help, a solution to the current problems. For this, there
are several strategies and interventions, determined by the nature and content of
the discipline.
In our research, by “strategy” we mean: “describing testable and falsifiable assumptions”,
intervening by clinical-hermeneutical analysis of the existential life
story on five dimensions: emotive distortion through internalisation of a surmenagistic
context (led by overstrain) on prenatal, perinatal and neonatogical
level, followed by progressive insecure attachment - started by Foetal programming
- by activation of the HPA-axis, and effects on the autonomous nervous
system, resulting in reactive Foetal behaviour to a permanent production of cortisol
139 that postnatally counteracts the attachment strategy, and usually expands
into a rigid stagnation of emotive life and a frustrated self-image in a later stage if
138 See prof. dr. Bea van de Bergh University Tilburg/Leuven and European study commission around prenatal stress
load.
139 Hereafter we will write about partly eliminating the mother’s cortisol level in the placenta. Research has shown that
this cortisol level is broken down by producing a particular enzyme, in a properly functioning immune system. As we will
see, this immune system remains vulnerable.