Classic article on fetal development reproduced online

"The Fetus as a Personality," by A.W. Liley was delivered to the Eighth Annual Congress of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry in October, 1971. A wide variety of facts about fetal physiology are reviewed, exploding the myth of the fetus as a passenger carried to term, and pointing out that the fetus is an active, developing individual responding to his environment in ways designed to improve his comfort. Endowment for Human Development; PDF format