Проблеми сучасної психології (Jan 2017)
On the methods of multimodal suggestive psychotherapy
Abstract
Some methodological aspects of multimodal suggestive psychotherapy are investigated. It is established that multimodal suggestive psychotherapy is an original psychotherapeutic system with its specific theoretical base and methodological principles. It is shown that one of the main psychotherapeutic tasks is correction of nonadaptive inference. It is noted that nonadaptive conclusions of an individual disrupt true perception of himself and the world decrease a level of his thinking adaptiveness and provoke various emotional and behavior deviations. It is paid attention to necessity to make goal-oriented direction of client’s actions by means of psychotherapeutic suggestion. It is found that multimodal suggestive psychotherapy allows to practice adaptive modification of thinking for humans with neurotic disorders. Mainly, multimodal suggestive psychotherapy is aimed at determining of a personally ideal lifestyle for a client, as well as developing such basic abilities as self-sufficiency, adaptiveness and creativity. There were considered the following ten key methods of multimodal suggestive psychotherapeutic influence: complex verification of inference, psychotherapeutic hypotheses, attitudinal suggestion, suggestive modeling of the future, provocation of physiological and mental stresses, immersion into reality, suggestive pressing by setting conditions, psychotherapeutic confrontational suggestion, actualization of creativity, psychotherapeutic travel alone. It is ascertained that these methods are considered to be effective for psychotherapeutic assistance to humans with various neurotic disorders.
