METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE TREATMENT OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, psychiatry, narcology, telemedicine.

SUBSTANCE: one should perform suggestive impact upon a patient to form negative emotions at different addictions. One should project a video-sequence of negative picture on the screen. Positive emotions should be developed by demonstrating positive pictures. Moreover, one should conduct psychotherapeutic impact through the canals of audiovisual devices along with distance control for patient's state. Moreover, it is necessary to register fluctuations of omega-potential, anxiety level, initial psychophysiological characteristics. At the background of positive emotions one should form a dominant for healthy life and the program to avoid addiction. Then comes correction of behavioral stereotypes. Patient should choose motivating video-image by activating the dominant and program to avoid the addiction available. Verbal impact occurs under stereophonic conditions with binaural sound fluctuations. The method enables to prevent relapses of addictive behavior at the stage of pre-clinical manifestations of the above-mentioned disease.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy.

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