Hypnotic Dream Therapy with a Borderline Schizophrenic: A Case Study

Abstract

This is a case study of a borderline schizophrenic patient (whom I will call Roy) who had made little progress with traditional insight-oriented therapy and who subsequently achieved significant therapeutic growth with auto-hypnosis. After two years of minimal progress with traditional therapy, I treated him for approximately one year utilizing intensive hypnotic dream work. In weekly therapy sessions he discussed and we analyzed hypnotic dreams. He worked through identity and ego conflicts, oedipal conflicts, fears of castration, incorporation, death, and sexual identity confusion. It seemed an essential part of Roy's progress that he was in complete control of his hypnotic dream process.