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.
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