ABSTRACT
One of the main aspects of treating children with complex trauma and dissociation is to process their earlier traumatic experiences. In this process, the dissociative defences also have to be acknowledged, explored and integrated. For only a few children, this is a process where they consciously remember information and are able to talk about it. For the vast majority of children, this is a process where their expressions of the traumatic memories occur in metaphors, somatic experiences and behaviours, and finally followed by verbal recall. This process is well known with therapists specializing in this field. What is, however, less well known is the fact that many children are also able to recall sensory and somatic memories of prenatal trauma as well as describe what appears like dissociative states. This chapter explores the aspect of prenatal memory as well as memory recall of prenatal trauma and dissociation.
