Psychotherapy is a system of systematic influence by certain means on the human psyche to improve its mental and physical condition. Mental influence is carried out by a psychotherapist with the help of words, pauses, gestures, facial expressions, music, and other verbal and non-verbal means.

   Psychotherapy is recommended when:

• experiencing a difficult life situation;
• passing through age crises;
• experiencing internal conflicts;
• the presence of phenomena of social maladjustment, after the transfer of psychodramatic events;
• somatic diseases;
• mental disorders, etc;

   

In the process of psychotherapy, a person's mental health, and inner balance are restored with a change, if necessary, in life goals, attitudes, and behavioral strategies. Psychotherapy encourages a person toward self-actualization.

Psychotherapy techniques: analysis, interpretation, suggestion, persuasion, development, and training of mental functions of the client.

   Psychotherapeutic work is carried out in individual and group form - with a dyad (mother and child, husband and wife, etc.); with a family; with a specially selected group.

   Psychotherapy methods: modern psychotherapeutic methods can be divided into two directions:

1. methods that are aimed mainly at the cognitive mental processes of a person (rational, cognitive, analytical methods);
2. therapeutic methods aimed mainly at the emotional and volitional components of the client's personality (suggestion, hypnotherapy, autogenic training, etc.).

   There are a large number of areas of psychotherapy, the appropriateness of using each of which depends on the personal characteristics and the client's request. Let's list the main psychotherapeutic directions:

• cognitive-behavioral therapy
• psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• gestalt therapy
• rational psychotherapy
• symbol drama
• personality-oriented psychotherapy
• play psychotherapy
• positive psychotherapy
• family psychotherapy and others

   Modern psychotherapy has a large arsenal of methods and techniques that are designed to help the client in optimal form.

Doctor-psychotherapist

Nugayev A.M.