Quality of birth — a lifetime resource: pre-perinatal aspects in the discussion on personality formation

Abstract

Having entered into a long-standing discussion about what is leading in the formation of an individual — genes or parenting — the authors point out the role of the quality of birth as the third equal component of this process. The authors introduced the notion of emergentness in relation to the psychosomatic qualities of a conceived child, distinguishing him from each of the parents and underlying his uniqueness, security and individuality of reactions in the conditions of ambiguity, multifactorial effects (psychological, social, environmental) before and after birth during lifetime.

Keywords

personality formation / gene system / quality of birth / emergentness / prenatal psychology

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Brekhman G.I., Brekhman E.A.