Notes
1 I have observed this particular process in several patients who were pregnant and had mothers who reversed the direction of projection to push feelings and expectations into the fetus‐baby.
2 The experience of mental pressure is a hallmark of one of the forms of prenatal experience (Bion, Citation1977; Paul, Citation1990).
3 I have written a book about clinical states of mind called Before We Were Young, much of which deals with the identification of prenatal states of mind (Paul, Citation1997).