[Combination of hypnosis and music in psychotherapy of adolescents with character disorders].

Personal experience of the association of psychotherapeutic techniques in the treatment of adolescents with personality disturbances is reported, special attention being paid to the combination of hypnosis and music. The theoretical principles underlying the latter are outlined, particularly as regards identification of the ISO principle and the technique of passive listening. At the same time, various examples of musical passages specially chosen for the treatment of problem adolescents are offered. As for hypnosis, this is concentrated on modifying phantasmatic patterns by means of symbolisms drawn from Desoille's rêve-eveilleé technique and Assagioli's psychosynthesis, of which a short survey is given. After reviewing the concept of characteriality in psychopathology, the results of experiments are discussed.