For me this is a brilliant book with wonderful, in depth cases about birth trauma healing and vividly demonstrating its profound effects upon life. I know a lot about this subject, as I wrote a book partly on this, yet I learnt a lot more from 'Homeopathy for Birth Trauma'. The theory Harry van der Zee gives, inspired by Stanislav Grof, and directly linked to The Organon, is demonstrated by a wide variety of fascinating birth trauma case studies. This is homeopathy at its best, cutting edge and rooted in great cases from this millennium that we can easily relate to. - Peter Chappell FSHom
This very well researched, beautifully written book is suitably documented with several case studies which establish the idea that the birth process could provide very useful clues for a patient's state. It gives us impetus to test the idea in our practice so that we can find yet one more area where we can look for or confirm the remedy. - Rajan Sankaran MD
Table of Contents
0 Introduction
1 Summarising 'Miasms in Labour'
2 The 'medicalisation' of reproduction
Case of pregnancy after medically induced ovulation
Case of IVF
3 Conception
Case of a betrayed father
4 Being in the womb
Case of a pregnancy full of sorrow
Case of fear of birth injury
Case of a baby presumed dead
Case of early contractions
Case of an early descent
Case of no descent
5 Miscarriage
Case of habitual abortion
Case of living in two worlds
6 Stillborn babies
Case of an angry frown
7 Unwanted pregnancies
Case of an unwanted child
Case of a tired woman
8 Induced abortion
Case of abortion trauma
9 Elective caesareans
Case of a premature caesarean
10 Twin pregnancy
Case of a missing sister
11 The onset of delivery
12 Induced labour
13 The dilatation phase
Case of a baby in a rush
14 Tokophobia
Case of fear of labour pains and a history of sexual abuse
15 The function of pain during labour
16 Emergency caesareans
Case of a baby refusing to be born
17 Full dilatation
Case of a suppressed baby
18 The propulsion phase
Case of a suppressed mother
19 Actual birth
Case of difficult bonding
Case of panic
20 Forceps and vacuum
Case of terror
Case of vacuum, forceps and manual expulsion
21 Maternal love
22 The capacity of the new-born to love
23 Postnatal
24 Natural birth
25 Home birth
26 Water
27 Birth Doula
28 Breastfeeding
29 Pelvic complaints during and after pregnancy
Case of a bad mother
Case of a perfect child
Case of pelvic rupture
30 Perinatal and postnatal depression
Case of a tired mother
Case of a suicidal mother
31 Vaccination
Case of migraine since MMR vaccination
Case of IVF and vaccination damage
32 The Role and Purpose of Miasms
Psora
Tubercular
Sycosis
Typhoid
Malaria
Cancer
Case of a spinal meningioma
Syphilis
Leprosy
AIDS
Case of a depressed HIV-positive gay man
Case of final stage of AIDS
Acute
33 Conclusion
34 Bibliography
35 Index of remedies
158 pages, paperback