POZDNYAKOV'S PSYCHOEMOTIONAL RELAXATION METHOD BASED ON AUDIOVISUAL EXPOSURE Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely psychotherapy, particularly to methods involving changes of a conscious state, also may be used for achieving a state of psychoemotional relaxation and improving a positive patient's self-estimation and prevention of stress and its effect. The patient is exposed to sounds of the nature pre-recorded on a material carrier and presented with images on a monitor. An isolated, obscure, ventilated room has acoustic isolation for substantial external noise control no more than 35 dB. A theatre atmosphere is created in the form of sound insulation, dark walls or upholstery, convenient armchairs, shades and monitor decoration of diagonal max. 50 cm: the monitor is circumferentially decorated with a baguette or draped by cloth pieces similar to scene wings and drop-curtains. The nature sounds have natural loudness and are true to the landscape images - pictures by famous artists, presented on the monitor as a slide film. Each image slowly appears on the dark monitor, gradually becoming brighter to a normal level, and then kept on a normal level of brightness for 5-10 sec, gradually and slowly goes out to full darkness. An interval of time between the onset to the going out of each image makes one video event and lasts for 45-60 seconds; a total number of video-events in one session makes not less than seven.

EFFECT: method allows relieving emotional and nervous tension, and also serves for prevention of stress and its effect.