Narcolepsy is a primary sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable and excessive daytime sleepiness associated with one or all of the following: cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations and nocturnal sleep disturbance [1 ]. The onset is usually in adolescents, lasting the whole life, significantly affecting quality of life. Drug treatment of narcolepsy-cataplexy syndrome remains unsatisfactory. Psychological factors and emotional instability play an important role in childhood narcolepsy [2,3]. It has, therefore, been suggested that narcolepsy in children should be treated with psychological and behavioral therapy [3,4]. To our knowledge there is no report in the literature of narcolepsy being successfully treated by pure hypnosis and psychotherapy. We now report two such patients.
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