METHOD FOR TREATING THE CASES OF CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method involves carrying out therapy in three stages. Clinical psychological examination is carried out at the first stage. Then, treatment for relieving emotional stress is applied. Emotionally saturated variable stimuli are concurrently applied. The stimuli are implicitly and substantially associated with verbal suggestion formula as a whole over vision and auditory sensory cerebral systems. Treatment duration is 60 min. Emotional stress therapy is applied at the second stage to produce negative conditional reflex against alcohol consumption on the background of bright, emotionally saturated esthetic stimuli implicitly and substantially associated as a whole with verbal suggestion formula. Conditional reflex is trained by triple 2 s long acoustic signal repetition with 4 s long pauses equal in time. 10 sessions each being 60 min long are applied twice a week. Supporting therapy is administered at the third stage. The treatment has 10 sessions each being 60 min long once per 3 weeks.

EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness in cultivating conditional alcohol aversion reflex and forming soberness dominant.