METHOD FOR TREATING PSYCHIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADDICTION Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with the ways to treat alcoholism, narcomania, tobacco smoking, obesity, sexual disorders, gambling-mania and others. Videopicture contains either one or two additional exposures, the 25^th and 26^th, correspondingly, each of them contains verbal information of either prohibiting or encouraging character and depictive information that corresponds to the character of verbal information. Moreover, at first, it is necessary to show the 25^th exposure only, then - the 25^th and the 26^th exposures together, then again - the 25^th exposure only. Duration of seance for videopicture watching should last for about 20-40 min. The method enables to perform less severe impact upon a patient.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy.

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