birth trauma, n.Definitions

Birth trauma (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be what anxiety discharges, or neurotics would grow healthier the more panic they relived, which is absurd.

The Birth trauma (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠such a truism it explains nothing, like the hypothesis that life is a disease with a bad prognosis, since it always ends fatally.

Birth trauma (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Otto Rank's master key to neurosis: analyse the shock of being born, he hoped, and the rest would take care of itself.

The Birth trauma (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be the source of childhood phobias, Freud argued against Rank: an infant retains no visual impressions of birth, and the theory invites arbitrary interpretation.