METHOD FOR TREATING BOUNDARY PSYCHIC AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, psychotherapy.

SUBSTANCE: while analyzing patient's anamnesis and psychological peculiarities it is necessary to diagnose individual disadaptating cognitive-behavioral style by detecting peculiarities of its concepts, tendencies and associations to conduct rational psychotherapy. One should form the motivation to alternative behavior and hypnotherapy, moreover, to exclude possible resistance the procedure of hypnotizing should be suggested for a patients as exercises on creativity development. Moreover, at the first stage of hypnotherapy, a patient should be put into the stage of hypnotic trance due to tasks imitating creative self-studying and causing cognitive exhaustion and provoking the process of auto-suggestion of hypnotic phenomena. Out of them, the phenomena corresponding to the deepest stage of hypnotic trance should be induced with suggestion of support disappearance due to suggestion to imagine the light flow coming from beneath and replacing this support followed by visualization of more distanced images. At the second stage, one should perform hypnosuggestion of adaptive cognitive-behavioral style, for deepened curative impact it is useful to imitate the contact with patient's subconscious "ego" part by applying contact technique with touching patient's head with a hand and, due to earlier obtained diagnostic information. One should speak on behalf of subconsciousness on complete understanding the causes of present problems, agreement to refuse from disadaptating concepts and tendencies. Then one should finally fix adaptive cognitive-behavioral style by suggesting the patient to accept it completely. At the third stage one should perform dehypnotizing and fix curative information with patient's subconsciousness by causing amnesia of a seance. Therapy course includes 7-10 individual seances at duration of 1-2 h followed by dynamic survey. If necessary, one should fix the effect obtained due to maintenance seances. The method enables to overcome patient's latent resistance to the process of hypnotic induction to teach a patient to apply auto-hypnosis, meditation or deep relaxation.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy.