Pre and Peri-Natal Psychology: An Introduction
In recent years revolutionary discoveries in genetics, neuroscience and developmental psychology have transformed our understanding of infant development. Pre and Perinatal Psychology has reset the starting time for parenthood from after birth to before conception; and has revealed the largely unknown until now connections between the quality of conception, pregnancy and birth and the biological and emotional development of a human being. Health and disease, love and hate begin in the womb.