Tranquillità, intimità, rispetto, luci soffuse...Bene, è tutto quello che serve anche per il travaglio e il parto. Sì, perché gli ormoni coinvolti sono gli stessi. E se l'atto sessuale fosse paragonato davvero a quello che succede nella maggior parte degli ospedali durante il parto? Freedom for Birth ci ha pensato e ha realizzato questo bellissimo cortometraggio con un punto di vista completamente nuovo.
Buona visione! :) Per chi avesse un po' di dimestichezza con l'inglese, sotto al video ho riportato anche il commento di Michel Odent.
"Via a short and eloquent film, Gabriella Pacini is offering
a key to understanding human nature in general, and human birth in particular.
We all know that our species has developed to an extreme degree the ''new
brain'', i.e. the neocortex, thanks to which we can constantly develop
sophisticated ways to communicate, diversify and enlarge our scientific
perspectives, increase our power through technological advances, etc. At first
sight, our huge neocortex may be considered a tool at the service of vital functions.
In fact, in some precise situations, this powerful tool can take control of
such functions and obscure them. This is called ''neocortical inhibition''.
The concept of neocortical inhibition is familiar to
specialised scientific circles. For example, it is familiar to physiologists
studying the sense of smell: one of the effects of drinking wine (as a way to
reduce neocortical control) is to make more acute human olfaction. It is
familiar to those who study the capacity to swim and wonder why Homo sapiens is
the only mammal that needs to learn to swim with voluntary movements: in fact
very young human babies have perfectly coordinated swimming movements before a
certain phase of neocortical development. This concept is also familiar to
specialised medical circles. For example, psychiatrists know about the effects
of a reduced neocortical control in some mental diseases. Urologists understand
why they cannot evaluate the power of the urine flow in the daily life of a man
through direct visual observation in a clinical environment.
Where sexual intercourse is concerned, the concept of
neocortical inhibition belongs to the framework of empirical knowledge. It is
not so when considering childbirth. This is why, at a time when most labouring
women rely on medical assistance, we must be grateful to Gabriella Pacini for
her capacity to reach an enlarged public through an appropriate analogical
method. We must thank her for participating that way in the advent of a
necessary paradigm shift, after thousands of years of socialisation of human
parturition." Michel Odent
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