METHOD OF INTEGRATED TREATMENT OF EATING BEHAVIOUR DISORDER Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A61M21/00 A61H1/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, treating obsessions. 8 group psychotherapy sessions include trance and meditative technicians, neuron-linguistic programming with therapeutic exercises. A patient keeps a diet diary with specifying a mealtime, food amount and name, emotional state before a meal. A cognitive diary is used for the patient to set the situations leading to a negative emotional state. The correct diary keeping is considered at the sessions. The patient is asked to remember a life moment when he felt comfortably both physically and psychologically, to make a right fist, then to relax the hand and to imagine himself/herself being with a desired body weight, to make a left fist and then to relax the hand. The patient is asked to recollect himself/herself in memories of childhood related with parents and a negative experience, to write down and read it aloud in the group. Further the patients train a disengagement and overeating guilt refusal exercise, practice in coping with it by physical activity. The group psychotherapy sessions are followed by a therapeutic exercise set consisting of respiratory exercises to train a deep, abdominal, rhythmic breathing, and tension and relaxation exercises - contrast relaxation, respiratory relaxation, "Comfort Point", "modified Lowen's arch". The integrated training for 3 hours 2 times a week for a month. Upon completion of the integrated group sessions, the patients are recommended continuing individual therapeutic exercises.

EFFECT: method provides detection, comprehension and overcoming of the psychological causes leading to eating behaviour disorder, constructive solution of conflict situations with no rational meals and with corrected long-term food behaviour.

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