Abstract
Through use of ideomotor responses combined with light hypnosis it is possible to review birth memory when it is associated with maternal stress. The effect of maternal pain and emotional distress on the baby may cause conditioned problems that are evoked as patterned responses in later life. The quality of these patterned responses is comparable to the imprinting of lower animals but they may be changed as the initial memory is exposed to conscious reasoning and later perspective during age-regression.