Speaker Profile Simon House
Simon House is a father and grandfather. His Cambridge degree is in Natural Sciences and Theology.
He spent eight years marketing in a pharmaceutical, food and agrochemical company.
Conviction that health was not in a bottle led to 30 years as an Anglican parish priest.
Frank Lake’s primal integration therapy
enabled him to reinterpret his experiences and realise ways in which profound personal qualities and problems relate to earliest nurture – parental, nutritional and emotional. He sees attention to these factors as vital to primal health – all the more urgent now that mental ill health is already at a pandemic level, together with obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular problems that have metabolic causes.
Simon focuses on the effects of environmental changes on human brain development, clarified through the perspective of evolution, of marine life as well as terrestrial, and now of epigenetics.
These aspects throw light on finer ways of parenting to protect the brain from adverse changes in the nurturing environment, and from ecological changes caused by the power of the human brain itself to change the biosphere.
This critical interaction between brain and environment can be ameliorated by skilful management.
He is passionate to integrate these insights so that professions and public engage in reclaiming primal and ecological health, and so generate children healthy in body and mind.
For 10 years he has been presenting an integral view to international congresses.
In 2006 Simon updated Roy Ridgway's book The Unborn Child, drawing profoundly on Lake, Liedloff, Odent, and many psychotherapists including his own experience.
He also added a new section, on the effects of nutrition from before conception on brain development, drawing on the outstanding brain chemistry of Professor Michael Crawford and others, whose research he had reviewed in Generating Healthy People: Stages in reproduction particularly vulnerable to xenobiotic hazards and nutritional deficits (Medline).
In Generating Healthy Brains, a cutting-edge conference in London 2006, Simon brought together the leaders of the International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychiatry and Medicine (ISPPM) and the McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health.
Speakers’ articles also are on Medline, including his own, Nuturing the brain, nutritionally and emotionally, from before conception to late adolescence (2007). At the recent ISPPM Congress he received the Elda Scarzella Mazzochi Award for his contribution to shalom / salaam – to health, completeness, peacefulness.
Publications include
- Nuturing the brain, nutritionally and emotionally, from before conception to late adolescence. In Generating Healthy Brains (2007). Nutrition and Health 19.1-2. (Find: house nurturing brain)
- The Unborn Child: beginning a whole life and overcoming problems of early origin. Ridgway & House (2006). Karnac Books
- Generating Healthy People: Stages in reproduction particularly vulnerable to xenobiotic hazards and nutritional deficits. (2000). Nutrition and Health 14.3
- Primal Integration Therapy – School of Dr Frank Lake MB, MRC Psych, DPM, JSPPM (1999); JOPPPAH (2000).
- The Struggle for Wholeness in People and in the World, S George's House, Windsor Castle (1978)
Memberships
- Council member:
- Member:
- Chair (1992-2000)
Presenting
Brain evolution, development and biochemistry
Saturday 11.30 – 1.00 pm
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