Why You Wound Up Like You Are

The movement through the birth canal should actually be one of pleasure,
to the parent and the child. The expression of energy for the baby is all
encompassing; it is a rippling of energy outward. When the babies energy (movement) is blocked, the baby either takes literally days to be born instead of an hour or needs a Cesarean section. Then the baby is welcomed to the world with harsh lights, painful solutions to the eye, separation from the mother and no breastfeeding, and circumcision. Then depending  on how many insults you survived, your musculature will compress (Dr. Reich calls the hardening of muscles armor) to block the flow of energy and not to be scared to death..

Babies are instinctual lovers of pleasure, (as should adults), their energy is fluid and joyous. Dr. Reich uses the analogy of the pin sticking the amoeba. Stick the amoeba enough times and the amoeba collapses on itself and dies.
Depending on how awful your childhood was your armor, ( musculature), character will be a reflection of those insults and like the amoeba can ultimately die.

Babies are great survivors but if we soak up horrible birth practices that hardened musculature, forms the groundwork for addictive behavior.  Each insult, each separation, each physically painful experience causes repressed anger.

Pick up the baby when the baby 

cries: The baby is crying to be close or to be fed. Ultimately not responding to the babies needs causes blocked energy. Your child's addictive behavior is the anger blocked energy trying to release in complaint over their loss of pleasure, closeness, and

autonomy that was never given.