Groups react to threat with psychotic levels of anxiety.
It is these underlying, primal fantasies at the international level which help explain the arms race. The group's boundaries carry the terror of the cervix. Every institution is a womb, every boundary is a potential cervix and every change is a little birth' Our memories reach back before birth, Wasdell claims, and our stress at birth, with cranial pressure and oxygen deprivation, is a shattering and traumatic event for most of us. David Wasdell dealt with his own early traumas through a process of regression and integration. He works internationally as a 'process consultant' and lecturer with business organisations,churches, universities and other institutions, investigating the psychodynamics of large social systems under stress.