Indications of suggestive therapy

At present, it is generally believed that suggestion therapy is widely used in clinic. Its indications include not only hysteria and other neurosis (such as panic neurosis and anxiety neurosis), but also psychosomatic disorders such as pain, itching, asthma, tachycardia and hyperventilation syndrome, sexual dysfunction such as impotence and frigidity, and behavioral and habitual disorders such as enuresis, stuttering and anorexia. The therapeutic effect of suggestion therapy often depends on patients' sensitivity and obedience to suggestion, and patients' trust in psychologists is the basis of suggestion therapy.

Hysteria is a traditional indication of suggestion therapy. Ancient people mastered how to use suggestion to treat hysteria. Although it was impossible to give a scientific explanation at that time and put on the cloak of superstition and magic, it has been accepted as a method of treating diseases. According to the etiological study of hysteria, the personality characteristics of hysteria patients are strongly suggestive, and they are easily influenced by other people's languages, attitudes, behaviors and concepts. Therefore, the symptoms of patients are closely related to suggestion and self-suggestion, especially when hysteria attacks and symptoms change or disappear. /kloc-In the mid-9th century, the French psychiatrist Shaq discovered this problem, and he emphasized the role of suggestion in the pathogenesis of hysteria, which was later supported by babinski and Bernheim. Some neurosis, such as panic neurosis and anxiety neurosis, are directly influenced by various mental factors. So the principle of psychotherapy is basically the same. It is necessary for doctors to give authoritative explanations and explanations to patients, so that patients can understand the cause, nature and outcome of the disease, and with the encouragement and guidance of doctors, patients can build confidence in overcoming the disease, thus alleviating their psychological state of fear or anxiety. These are inseparable from suggestion therapy.

In addition, a large number of clinical observations and experimental studies have proved that suggestion has obvious influence on pain, and with enough suggestion, the use of placebo can significantly alleviate postoperative wound pain; Stimulating tooth extraction with noise also has a prompt effect. Similarly, suggestion therapy is also effective for psychosomatic diseases such as asthma.

For sexual dysfunction such as impotence, premature ejaculation and frigidity, as well as behavioral habitual disorders such as enuresis, stuttering and anorexia, because they are mostly psychogenic, suggestive therapy can also be used to relieve symptoms or achieve rehabilitation.