Lifelong Patterns: Fear or Wholeness?  Michael: What led to your
discovery that birth and pre-birth experiences can impact adult
relationships and behavior?  Barbara: I accidentally dropped
into a womb experience during my own therapy. I had no education
or t raining to validate the experience. My therapist didn't
understand it. I didn't understand it. But it was so real and
made my entire life make sense. It was a shock to realize that
the major pattern of my life was made so early. That started my
quest to learn about pre- and perinatal psychology. Back in the
seventies I couldn't find many people who knew much about the
subject, let alone anyone who could teach me. Then I discovered
that psychoanalysts Otto Rank in Germany and Donald Winnicott in
England and many others had talked and written about prenatal
and perinatal memories. Even Sigmund Freud wrote that traumas
during birth may possibly be the "seat of all anxiety". If I
mentioned this to my colleagues, they thought I was really off
the deep end. Th