THE USE OF PRESLEEP INSTRUCTIONS AND DREAMS IN PSYCHOSOMATIC-DISORDERS

Economic restrictions in health care delivery encourage the developmen t and use of efficacious, inexpensive, and brief psychiatric intervent ions in the treatment of psychosomatic illness that can by employed by generalists as well as psychiatrists. This article reports on the suc cessful new application of recently developed techniques in dream inte rpretation in three cases of varying psychosomatic symptomatology. The improvements noted suggest that this approach may provide a rapid, lo w-cost diagnostic and treatment method appropriate for a range of psyc hosomatic patients.