Book VII: 
Raymond Dart and 
The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential

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Book VII presents aspects of human development as background for Raymond Dart’s work and the Murrays’ Dart Procedures. More specifically, this volume emphasizes both the spiral nature of human anatomy and idea that the “head leads”: in, for example, embryological development, cortical development, childbirth, reflex development, development of primary and secondary curves, and locomotion.

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VII.1 Means-whereby of grooming a pony (Evans)

VII.2 Cell division, elongation, and segmentation (Dart)

VII.3 Cell division, elongation, and segmentation (Dart)

VII.4 Manual competence development: using index finger

VII.5 Manual competence development: grasp reflex (Le Winn)

VII.6 Manual competence: vital release/prehensile grasp (Le Winn)

VII.7 Manual competence: cortical opposition (Le Winn)

VII.8 Manual competence: illustrations (LeWinn)

VII.9 Fertilization: 0-15 days

VII.10 Muscular development: 14 days (Dart)

VII.11 Embryo: 18-22 days

VII.12 Embryo segmentation: 5 weeks (Dart)

VII.13 Embryo: 4-9 weeks

VII.14 Embryo muscle development, 8 weeks (Dart)

VII.15 Fetus: 7 months

VII.16 Childbirth: second stage of labor

VII.17 Childbirth: first stage, dilation

VII.18 Childbirth: second stage, delivery

VII.19 Childbirth: rotation of head, crowning

VII.20 Childbirth: delivery of head

VII.21 Childbirth: delivery of shoulders

VII.22 Childbirth: development of primary and secondary curves

VII.23 Cortical development: the mouth leads

VII.24 Rooting reflex

VII.25 Fetal thumb sucking

VII.26 Fetal position (infant)

VII.27 Spiraling: 3.5 months

VII.28 Spinal organization: 11 months

VII.29 Patterning (IAHP)

VII.30 Cross-pattern creeping and walking (Delacato)

VII.31 Mobility development: rolling over and creeping

VII.32 Mobility development: creeping and standing

VII.33 Sleep position (right and left handed)

VII.34 Beginning from the Beginning (Goldberg, Ahern, Murray)

VII.35 Dart-Alexander Procedure (Murray, 1967)

VII.36 Dart Procedure, fetal upwards (Johnston)

VII.37 Dart Procedure: fetal upwards, mobility vs. security (Murray)

VII.38 Developmental Profile (IAHP)