Smilija Janjatovic
In the troubled and complex world we live in today,
which is becoming more and more complex and whose
troubles do not seem to diminish, a new life needs to be
planned, prepared, desired, and wanted, in our mind first
and before conceiving. My interest in the centrality of the
prebirth relationship, that is, of the woman-mother-fetus
relationships during the nine months of pregnancy stems
from the belief that ALL IS BORN FROM BIRTH.
We need to view pregnancy in a perspective of prevention
since the consequences of inopportune fertilization may
result in pregnancies that are accepted only passively and
as such may translate into a shattering of the maternal
ego.
The nine months of pregnancy is a fundamental period
of psycho-biological imprinting in which the formation
of personality traits & style of affective attachment takes
place, but also the nesting of potential pathogenic nuclei
in the fetus. It is in this delicate & unique phase of life
that the brain, the nervous system of the future human
being is formed.
It is obvious that if we can protect women during pregnancy,
we can actually protect the prebirth relationship
and, hence, the new developing human being. This is the
only true primary prevention. Any other prevention or
treatment program, for example in adolescence or later,
no matter how useful, will always have a temporal gap and
will only perform a reparative function because it will act
upon a body where possible pathological mechanisms
have been structured in a much earlier period of life. May
I remind all that according to WHO, health is not just the
absence of disease, it is physical, psychological and social
wellbeing and it is only too obvious that healthy individuals
form healthy societies, while unhealthy individuals
form unhealthy societies.
In consideration of the above, at the 1st Gynaecological
Clinic of the University Hospital of Rome, Italy, the Umberto
1°, a specific psychotherapeutic approach which
integrated hypnotherapy and group-analysis was designed
and implemented successfully for many years.
The hypnotherapy-groupanalysis groups included pregnant
women, women who had difficulties in conceiving,
women who had been gynaecologically diagnosed as sterile
and women with risky pregnancies.