Frozen Journey

Dick, Philip K. . "Frozen Journey." Playboy Dec. 1980. Coll. Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities, q.v. under Anthologies.

The main immediate setting is a computer-run spaceship carrying sixty passengers "sleeping in its cyronic tanks" ([246]). One passenger isn't deeply enough under, and he and the ship must deal with his "buried memories" and wishes. The ship must play lay psychologist and does a rather better job at nurturing than the human does with letting go of his neuroses (256).