METHOD OF NEUROLINGUISTIC TREATMENT OF PSYCHOFUNCTIONAL DISTURBANCES Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: psychotherapy. SUBSTANCE: treatment session is commenced by rational psychotherapy during which symptomatic expression of psychofunctional disturbances are revealed. LuscherТs color test is produced and a patient is induced to associate revealed symptoms with color and to express it in the form of a figure. Patient is then brought into hypnotic state and is aided to recall a positive event from his(her) past experience and to associate it with color. Figure depicted by patient is 1.3-fold magnified and dyed into color associated with comfort state. Straight away, not later than 1-3 sec after patient is lead out of hypnosis and forgets experienced state, he(she) is shown transformed figure. When he(she) is contemplating the figure, he(she) is simultaneously being induced by positive emotions experienced in hypnotic state, which are marked. Image is shown then to patient every day for 10-12 s before going to bed and during frustration time. EFFECT: enhanced treatment efficiency. 2 cl