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Mutual Caring
Frank Lake

Edited by Stephen Maret

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The Prenatal Origin of Human Personality

Frank Lake began writing this book as he was dying from inoperable cancer in the spring of 1982. This book is the third and final work in a trilogy on the prenatal origin of human personality and is now being published for the first time. As Lake writes in his introduction to this manuscript, he believed that this third and final book was needed to tie up some loose ends and bring closure to his life’s work. All three books address the issue that Lake had become convinced was the most important one for any adequate understanding of human personality formation and function. It is in this final book that Lake’s thoughts take their most direct, and perhaps most radical form. He asserted that not only is the origin of human personality, and consequently psychopathology, found prior to birth, but was likely formed within the intrauterine dynamics of the first three months of pregnancy.

About the Author:

Frank Lake (1914-1982) was a pioneer of pastoral counseling
in the United Kingdom. In 1962 he founded the Clinical Theology Association, whose primary aim was to enable the clergy to minister more effectively through providing them with a better understanding of the psychological origins of their parishioners’ personal difficulties. The training seminars which he began in 1958 soon enlisted professional and lay people of every denomination. Many thousands of people have passed through the seminars. His book of renown, Clinical Theology (reprinted by Emeth Press) served as the text for these seminars and may be the most significant work in pastoral theology written in the 20th century.