The psychology of birth : the foundation of human personality / Leslie Feher, with a chapter by Lewis E. Mehl.

"In this study, the author puts forward new and controversial suggestions about the foetus' relationship with its 'first parent', the umbilical unit of cord and placenta, and the crisis of its seperation from both; the significance of contractions during labour in defining identity and confirming the foetus' sense of competence; and the consequence for the child's personality of medical interventions during birth, such as anaesthesia and caesarian section. She traces back whole sets of emotional problems - of guilt and maladjustment, depression, seduction and sadism - to their earliest roots in how we were born."-- Jacket.