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in the other nights during the middle of the session #3, I shared with his father that I had
night, but we were able to talk him back into confronted Andrew and asked him why he
staying on his mattress on the floor next to continued to sleep in his parents’ room if he
us. Previously he would refuse to stay on his was so much better? He replied that they
mattress and get panicky at the prospect of were having houseguests for a few weeks
not coming into our bed. and there was no other place for him to sleep.
I responded to both Andrew and his father
We were also in the park one night, and saying “fair enough”, that that was a valid
another evening he was comfortable to run reason. I asked his father to report back once
down the sidewalk on his own in the dark. the houseguests had left and things at home
Previously he would fixate on wanting to go had returned to normal.
home before dusk to be locked safe inside the
house before dark. 12.11.16 Progress updates received from
Andrew’s father via email 3 weeks after
19.10.16 Analyst’s notes, session #3: Session #3:

Andrew reported that he was much better I would like to give you a progress report on
and that the zombies had only come to mind Andrew. He has started to sleep in his bed
once during the past week and that he used again! After all of the houseguests left and I
the oil and was able to get himself back to returned from a weekend away, he resolutely
sleep. We re-imagined the images and the moved back to his bed, and has been staying
scenes. In his mind’s eye, he saw the scenes there through the night. He slept there all last
from an aerial prospective, overlooking his week without coming in and waking us up.
house, and the zombies are surrounding the This weekend he is at a sleep-away with one
house. From that distance, they are small and of his friends at their house.
look like normal people. I sensed there is still
residual fear. I asked him to reimagine all the So, beautiful progress, thank You!!!
details of the events and to share them with
me. I did the relaxation protocol and then EFT Methodologies applied in case study
on him as he retold the details of the episodes.
I continued to ask endless questions about the Classical Depth Psychology approach: determining
story. He eventually got bored with the story the patient’s defence mechanisms
and automatically switched to telling me “a
funny story”, a prank Andrews’s friend’s As we read Andrew’s father’s initial des-
dad had played on his son. Andrew was able cription of the situation, we suspected that a
to linger in the humour of the story without major defence mechanism that Andrew used
being distracted by the zombie phobia. I to cope with his fears was ‘Avoidance’. As
sense a substantial shift has taken place with his father noted:
Andrew in our session at that moment. We
spent the remainder of the session chatting. “He has said that he needs to occupy his mind
so that he doesn’t think about the images, and
In a telephone conversation a few days after turns on music at night, in order to distract

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