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Great observations. This passage stands out: "the parents making contact with the biophysical basis of the infant's characteristics within themselves, then it is not projection at all but something much deeper. It is the parents' orgonotic contact with the infant" stands.

During birth and from newborns to infants , I think the unarmored healthy expressions, especially face and eye and limb and breathing expressions seen in wonderful unarmored newborns, can be protected from contractions that lead to armor by this very phenomenon..a level of gentleness and sensitivity in the physician and adult caretaker....to everything from physical touch to lighting and sound environments, voice, eye contact, etc.; that comes from a kind of sense memory of what it was like to be in that little young persons shoes, as we all were,"making contact with the biophysical basis of the infant's characteristics" ...Bravo!

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