Woolger gave a list of conditions which responded to past life therapy in his practice. It is to be noted that one individual may have several themes and related past-life stories that will need to be worked through in a regression process.

(1) Insecurity and fear of abandonment - this is often related to past life abandoment as a child, separation during a war, being orphaned, sold to slavery, left to die in a famine, etc.

(2) Depression - Past life memories of loss of a loved, unfinished grieving, suicide, despair, massacre, etc.

(3) Phobias - Traumas in past life: death by fire, drowning, suffocation, animals, insects, natural disasters, etc.

(4) Sadomasochistic behaviour - Past life memory of torture, often with loss of consciousness, usually with sexual overtones; associated with pain, rage, hatred and a desire to revenge oneself in some way.

(5) Guilt and martyr complexes - Past life memory of having killed loved ones or directly responsible for the death of others.

(6) Material insecurity and eating disorders - Past life memory of starvation, poverty

(7) Accidents, violence, physical brutality - Repetition of old battlefield memories; unfulfilled quests for power

(8) Family struggles - Past life scores to settle with parents, children, siblings: e.g. betrayal, abuse of power

(9) Sexual difficulties - Past life memories of rape, abuse, torture.

(10) Marital difficulties - Past life experience with the same mate in a different power, class or sexual constellation, e.g. mistress, slave, prostitute, where sex roles were reversed.

(11) Chronic physical ailments - Headaches may be related to past life intolerable mental choices, ulcers to memories of terror, neckaches to hanging or strangling.

Of course, this list is far from being exhaustive.

(Source: Roger Wolger: "Other Lives, Other Selves." 1988.)