Thomas Verny
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Pregnancy can be a tense time for a mother and her partner, but Dr. Thomas Verny and Pamela Weintraub have outlined ways for parents to communicate with their child in order to relieve stress and create a lasting bond. NURTURING THE UNBORN CHILD diagrams a nine-month program involving such exercises as massage, music and dance to stimulate the relationship between parents and child. Through these techniques parents can learn how to analyze their fears...
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Long before they're born, children are thinking, feeling, moving - experiencing. What happens to them in utero may profoundly shape the people they become. In recent years much work has been done to demonstrate the importance of the "prenatal self" and the birth experience. Thomas Verny, psychiatrist, founder of the Center for Psychotherapy and Education in Toronto, and author of The Secret Life of the Unborn Child (Delta, 1982), describes how we...