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.