FIELD: psychotherapy. SUBSTANCE: method envisages three phases. In the first one, psychodiagnostic testes are performed to reveal peculiar features of personality followed by restorative therapy to correct somatic state of person. The first phase includes collective psychotherapy sessions held daily for a period of six days, each session consisting of three elements: thematic discussion, mastering of autogenic training fundamentals, and hypnotherapy with suggestive fixation of rational conclusions of thematic discussion. On the first day, collective psychotherapy session is dealing with theme dedicated to realization by patients that they are mentally depended subjects and to necessity of suppressing mental dependence. On the second day, reorientation of consciousness to life without mental dependence and personal responsibility for own choice are discussed. The following days are dedicated to revealing and preventing prestress conditions and stress (third day), solitude (4th day), revealing life-objective orientations, searching and motivating individual life objective (5th day), and preventing recurrence possibility (6th day), autogenic training on the 6th day also including therapeutic process to reveal alcoholic subpersonality of patient, its "death" and its "funeral". EFFECT: reduced treatment time. 8 cl
