Indirect Suggestions Through Personalized Fairy Tales for Treatment of Childhood Insomnia

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Two cases of childhood insomnia, successfully treated with indirect hypnotic suggestions, are described. The suggestions were presented through the medium of an audio cassette recording of a childhood fairy tale. The fantasies are designed for each child; favorite objects and characters are woven into the story and successful adaptation to the child's particular psychosocial stress is demonstrated through the actions and words of the fantasy characters. After playing the audiotape at bedtime for six consecutive nights, the maladaptive behaviors related to going to bed were successfully eliminated.

This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit: