A Combined Trance-suggestive Method of Forming Antinarcotic Psychological Set

Abstract

The main aim of the method:

To eliminate psychological dependence of an individual on narcotics.

The basic principles:

1. 1. bio-psycho-social-religious determinism of a personality;

2. 2. the principle of psychological set;

3. 3. the principle of structural-systemic approach;

4. 4. the principle of differential approach;

5. 5. the principle of complementarity of various psychotherapeutic approaches;

6. 6. the principle of creative approach;

7. 7. the principle of establishing psychotherapeutic relations with a patient;

8. 8. the principle of determinism of conscious and subconscious psychic phenomena;

9. 9. the principle of coordinated psychotherapeutic influence upon the patient's consciousness and subconscious psyche.

Psychotherapeutic work stages:

1. 1. establishment of certain psychotherapeutic relations between the psychotherapist and the patient;

2. 2. psychological preparation of the patient for work on the formation of an antinarcotic set;

3. 3. revelation and work with the key components of the patient's antinarcotic set (motivation, the behaviors, the emotions, the memory, ways of self-realization, time continuum of the personality, etc.);

4. 4. psychological preparation of the patient for work on the formation of the antinarcotic set at subconscious level;

5. 5. psychotherapeutic work on the antinarcotic set at subconscious level (with the help of the combined trance-suggestive method);

6. 6. testing of the formation of antinarcotic psychological set in the personality.