AUTISM In The Light Of The Theory Of "Paranatal Trauma"

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Autism is fear. "Psychobiological - epigenic" concept of understanding the origins.

“I want to be healthy, because being autistic is very unpleasant, scary. Oh, I want happiness! Goodbye Sonya."

In the popular science film "Bright Mind", Temple Grandin (Ph. D. from the USA, living with a diagnosis of autism), says that her main emotion is fear, diffuse, objectless, panic horror.

Autism is a normal phase of development of any newborn and is natural for a prenate, sometimes, some children remain in it for the rest of their lives, while others have barely begun development, more often at the age of 2-3 years under the influence of stress they regress to primary autism and close in it, as in a shell seeking salvation from fear. According to my observations, the reason for autism is the coldness of the mother, the fact that they have already christened the "mother refrigerator", sometimes hidden, flawlessly disguised hatred of her child.

Two case histories

Children with neuroses are very often bad mothers in the sense that they have very strong feelings of hatred and condemnation of their children, or make excessive demands on them. Joseph Reingold "Mother, Anxiety and Death".

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The psychobiological aspects of the onset of autism are not given due attention in the academic community, but if you conduct a scientific search based on the principle of holism, a person is a triad of "mentality, structure, biochemistry", you can get very interesting facts that indicate the psychological basis of the syndrome of early childhood autism.

In my office, over the past two years, a new concept of "Paranatal trauma" has been formed theoretically and perfected in practice. She is able to answer the most difficult theoretical questions of the etiology of a wide range of childhood postpartum neuropsychiatric disorders, psychosomatic diseases and neurotic conditions in adults. The concept of "Paranatal trauma" is a "know-how", it has passed a successful empirical test, dozens of children with the most severe diseases (paresis, hemiparesis, convulsive conditions, logoneurosis, phobias, enuresis, autism, cerebral palsy, cerebral palsy, and others) received complete or partial rehabilitation, the effectiveness rate is 80 percent.

I, Naryzhny Vadim Nikolaevich, a practicing osteopath and psychologist. In osteopathy, it is generally accepted that “we do not treat diagnoses”, therefore, an osteopath may see a person with a very varied outpatient history, these can be people of different ages and genders, including children. Once, and this was the first such case, a family of an autistic child turned to me for help. I decided to hold a consultation, examine the child and then decide whether to take on this difficult clinical case or politely refuse, not being sure of my usefulness.

Parents told me that doctors find autism in their son, five-year-old Sasha, however, until the diagnosis has been approved, so to speak, in question. Definitely, the child had manifestations reminiscent of autistic behavior. Observing, from the first minutes, the impression was created that he was most of his consciousness in another reality known to him alone, while he was excessively mobile, as if he was in a mild degree of panic, chaotically scampered around the office, without stopping for a long time, attention quickly shifted from one subject to another. The door from the office to the waiting room, like the door to the main entrance, was wide open. When I tried to close the door to the office, Sasha immediately began to scream heart-rendingly, rushed to the door, pushed her and tried to run out into the street, but his father caught up with him in time and by persuasion brought him back, I didn't try again,close the door so as not to provoke repeated claustrophobic reactions. Then, at my request, dad sat Sasha on a couch, for examination, as soon as he was seated, he immediately jumped up and ran across it. Finding himself at the edge of the surface, he froze for a moment, sparks of pleasure from the imminent danger were visible in his eyes - to fall off the couch onto the floor. He did not react to my words.

I had to stop trying to examine the baby, delicately invited my dad to go outside with him, staying with my mother, I continued the consultation. From her I learned that when my son was two years old, he had a hemangioma removed under general anesthesia, and it was necessary to subject the child to this procedure, twice with a break of only two months. After that, Sasha seemed to be replaced, according to the general opinion of the parents, it was this medical intervention that provoked the disease. If, before that, the boy spoke a dozen words, then after the anesthesia he fell silent and now he is only able to pronounce, only one understandable inarticulate, harsh sounds, similar to calling cries.

It should be noted that the parents' assumptions were not unfounded, at that time I knew that at the beginning of the last century, and to be precise, in 1923, the Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank wrote in his book "The Trauma of Birth":

“We will not be surprised to learn that children undergoing anesthesia develop a state of fear some time later … or that the existing fear (sleeping alone in a dark room, frightening dreams, night fear) after anesthesia is strikingly intensified. I am indebted to an English doctor for the message that after operations to remove tonsils under anesthesia in children, there are often nocturnal attacks of fear for many years."

Answering my question "how did the pregnancy go", the woman could not remember anything special, she said that everything was fine, the bearing of the baby was going without complications and the birth went smoothly.

After weighing the pros and cons and yet relying more on intuition, I made the decision to tackle this special case. In view of the fact that there was no way to work with the child directly, I proposed such a plan of action. Let's start with mom (mother and child, the first years of life have a deep psychophysical codependency), perform several osteopathy sessions, and then try again to establish therapeutic contact directly with Sasha. After some deliberation, the parents agreed.

The osteopathic method has a "side" effect that sometimes happens during a session, it is about the so-called "Bodily emotional release". For me, as a psychologist who relies in his practice on the concept of "Body-oriented psychotherapy", this effect is not at all a side effect, but even desirable. The special state of consciousness of the recipient during the osteopathy session helps to remember important facts from the past. Knowing this, I hoped that my mother would definitely remember some unfavorable events from the period of her pregnancy. The missing information was received this time too, in the second session my mother remembered that during pregnancy she was attacked by a flock of stray dogs, they did not cause any direct harm to her, apart from the fact that she was very frightened.

The husband who was present in the office immediately recalled another event and added on his own: “Do you remember once,” he said, addressing his wife. the table is hidden! " After a pause, he asked me, with a smile, as if half-jokingly, half-seriously: "Won't you tell me why my wife, the whole pregnancy treated me coldly and even with hatred?"

It was, in a sense, a rhetorical question, it sounded the admission "my wife's pregnancy was a difficult test for both of us, neither she nor me was happy about this."After his words, it became clear that if the beginning was wrong, it is difficult to expect a good continuation. I, in turn, laughed it off in response to the question asked, saying that during pregnancy, the character of a woman often changes greatly and not for the better.

It was possible to draw some conclusions, the first woman was not ready to accept the burden of motherhood, the second child was undesirable and developed against the background of conflict between mother and father, which caused serious harm to his psycho-emotional health and hinders his development.

The therapeutic work that had begun triggered the intrafamilial self-regulation mechanisms, the released resources had a beneficial effect on Sasha's mood and behavior, he became more accessible to physical contact. The first session of osteopathy took place, to the general surprise, everything went more or less well, and then it was even better. I managed to consistently give him a course of osteopathy of five procedures for a month. Each time they came to the next session, Sasha's parents willingly shared with me the joyful news about a significant improvement in their son's condition. The time of the rehabilitation course coincided with the boy's admission to the kindergarten, from the first days of his stay in the group, the children quickly made friends with him, one of the girls surrounded him with special attention and care, constantly took care of him.

It was an ordinary kindergarten, and although Sasha did not speak, the children understood him without words. At home, the parents also observed changes in the behavior of their son, Sasha began to demand that they sleep together with the whole family, dad and mom lay down on the sides, he was in the middle, and only this way, and not otherwise. While visiting his grandfather, who lives in a private house, the boy began to tease his dog with a stick, which until recently he was afraid of him like fire and bypassed. In my office, Sasha greeted me by the hand, waved his hand at parting, walked slowly, without the previous fuss, while, without showing any concern, during the session he was much calmer, stopped responding to closed doors.

We finished the last session in this position, Sasha was sitting on the couch, his back to my chest, his body was completely relaxed, breathing even and deep, in an atmosphere of complete trust, he calmly awaited the end of the half-hour session. The problem with speech remained at the same level, however, the acquisition of a stable psychoemotional state and the normalization of behavioral reactions could significantly contribute to the rapid progress of speech development, the child became contact, which made it possible to study with teachers, including with a speech therapist.

In Sasha's case, I would not talk about classic autism, but rather what is commonly called autism spectrum disorder.

Fromm is trying to figure out what fear means to a child. He says that the phrase “fear of mother” pales in comparison to the power of the underlying experience. Do we know how we would feel if we were in the same cage with a lion, or in a pit teeming with snakes? Can we imagine the horror that would seize us if we saw ourselves doomed to trembling impotence?

However, this is exactly the experience that represents the fear of the mother.

The next example is the story of a three-year-old girl, let's call her Alma. In my opinion, a real example of early childhood autism

Alma is a very calm and smiling girl and there is no other, her gaze is directed aimlessly into space, an expression of sad gaiety is frozen in her eyes, while she vividly gestures with her hands, but the movements and emotional expression on her face do not look coherent, speech skills are absent. Mom says that she can leave her in front of the TV (she seems to like cartoons), and at this time she can go to the store for shopping, when she comes home she finds her daughter in the same place at the TV screen, she did not care if there was someone at home next to her or not. Alma does not recognize anyone, neither her father nor her mother, for her there are no "friends" and "strangers" to all living things around her, she responds with detachment, indifference and indifference. Figuratively, it looks as if she is behind glass with one-sided transparency, through which she can be seen, but she does not see or hear anyone.

Alma's mother spoke of her pregnancy in general as quite normal, even, calm and the birth was easy. It seemed to me that the woman was not saying something, I decided to be patient and set to work. We started a course of osteopathy, which is standard in my practice, consisting of five sessions. Before the start of the next session, I did not forget to ask the girl's mother if she remembered anything important about the pregnancy period and always received one answer: "No, I can't add anything new!"

A month has passed since I started Alma's treatment, but there were no signs of any improvement in her condition. And so it was until the fourth time, at last my mother "remembered" one thing, as it seemed to her an important event that coincided with her pregnancy. The family experienced a grievous loss, a sister and her husband tragically died. During her lifetime, with the deceased, they had a very close trusting relationship. On one of these difficult, sad days, the woman felt the first stirring of the fetus in her womb. She was confused and completely bewildered by the unexpected realization of her pregnancy. Many breastfeeding mothers share one common misconception, "if you breastfeed, you cannot get pregnant," therefore they do not use protection and often get pregnant at the most inopportune moment and face the choice to keep the baby or not, not all women are ready for such an early repeated pregnancy. So it was this time. Alma's mother nursed her first child, her son, and did not care about protective measures.

The gynecologist has set the deadline for almost five months. The conditions for a second pregnancy, to put it mildly, were not the most favorable, but there could be only one choice, it was necessary to give birth.

Then the most interesting thing happened. At the final session, Alma's mother said that over the past week after the fourth procedure, there had been some changes for the better in her daughter's behavior. Namely! For the first time, the girl greeted her father who came from work, stretching out her arms to him, made it clear that she wanted to be in his arms, when he grabbed her, she, happy and cheerful, hugged him tightly by the neck. Alma now demands more attention from her mother, if she is left alone, then she starts crying and searches for her mother in all the rooms, immediately calms down, finding herself in her mother's arms.

There were more than a dozen such examples in my practice, which allows me to draw some generalizations and conclusions. In each case of autism or diseases of children belonging to the autism spectrum, it was found that during pregnancy, the mother experienced any tragic or dramatic events (the sudden death of a loved one, family breakdown, physical injury, getting into a car accident) that caused a state of severe pathological stress, which inevitably had a detrimental effect on the developing fetus. It should be noted that many medical histories had, among other things, manifestations of the mystical and metaphysical level of being. Especially it is necessary to highlight the internal readiness of a woman to become a mother, I would call it “the index of motherhood”. In each case of bearing and giving birth to an unhealthy child, one can assume that the mother has strong unconscious resistance, denial, fear of pregnancy and childbirth.

Summarizing the experience gained, I developed the concept of "Paranatal trauma", the foundation for which is the doctrine of "birth trauma" by Otto Rank, the theory of "basic perinatal matrices" by Stanislav Grof, the work of Dr. Thomas Verney "The Secret Life of a Child Before Birth" and Alexander Lowen " Betrayal of the body."

I follow Saint Augustine who said, "Give me other mothers and I will give you another world."