METHOD OF CONDUCTING PARTNER AND MATRIMONIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to psychology, psychotherapy and can be used for married coupled and families in time of crisis characterized by psychoemotional conflicts and contradictions that cause psychosomatic disturbances of family members, and various forms of dependent behavior, as well as disturbances in sexual sphere. Three cycles of partner and matrimonial psychotherapy are conducted. During first cycle, therapist analyzes and organizes joint transition space of relations between partners. Note here that, he, first, uses image-dialogue wherein he offers the partners to establish new elements of positive exchange in everyday life and express their frustrations. Then, communicative partner dialogue is conducted using interpretative tactics and narrative approach during which revealed are destructive patterns of emotional-behaviorist reaction generated in childhood. Emphasis is changed from external conflict between partners into settlement of internal conflict, formed Ego-image is decentralized, forms of dependent and desadaptive behavior are destabilized, as well as personal space boundaries and space of partner relations. Also approach to analyze the core of destabilizing complex is used. During second cycle, therapist helps expand the boundaries of transition joint space via conducting symbolic drama, working with masks that reveal personal covered motives and subconscious settings distorting perception of reality, and forms of dependent and desadaptive behavior to allow take on various aspects of own and partner personalities. Psychotherapist used meditation and sets of drawings to display, in symbolic images actualized experiences to help reveal their covered symbolic meaning, attenuate arche-protections of psychic sphere. During third structuring cycle, therapist constructs and transfers to new reality of relations via actualization of existential dynamic conflict which allow the partners to change over to new identity. For this, during the first cycle, partners are moved from everyday reality into dramatic reality against the background of narrating the myth of the world during which installation of internal space is effected for partners along with its center via composition including the objects characterizing first elements, i.e. air, fire, water, and soil. Then therapist proposes the partners to create joint space. Then, therapist helps partners to effect diagnostical comparison of existing boundaries in matrimonial relations with the structure of constructed symbolic space of aforesaid installation and transition of partners into liminal state taking use of techniques of symbolic drama and active imagination note here that realized installation is used with communicative projective-symbolic expression of all first elements starting from air. Performance of the process of interaction of partner with objects used in installation is effected, and drawing is made of the most actual scenario of aforesaid interaction. Thereafter, realized restructuring of personal perception space occurs via performance and physical therapy during which intentional dialogue between partners and therapist takes place to reveal symbolic meaning of first elements and actualized experiences at biographical and archetypical levels and to relate them with dynamics of partner relations. During third stage, therapist proposes to partner to create , in turns, a new structure of space of relations, enhance it via performance. During fourth stage, new center of personal space is formed, related with new identity and new Ego image. For this, therapist accentuates the conflict actualized in constructing joint space, helps enhance opposition between old and new Ego image via formulation of its negative and positive deep meaning. He also helps transform arche-protections of psychic sphere via comprehension of their deep meaning and to change over to new Ego image. During fifth During third stage, therapist moves patient out from dramatic reality and liminal state. For this, in dialogue, patient attention is accented at the structure of new spatial personal perception, experiencing the main values, motivation and role position. The latter allow generate positive strategy of behavior, to form new social status of participant and new Ego-image for experiencing and continuous perfection proceeding from which positive strategy of partners development is generated and new flexible interpersonal relations are formed.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of psychotherapeutic help.

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