Procedure goal
Every third person at some time in life needs a psychiatrist or psychotherapist consultation. Specifically, they need it when their well-being and mental state change, it becomes difficult to cope with the situation on their own.
The psychotherapist conducts a diagnostic interview with the patient; conducts psychodiagnostics; and,if necessary, prescribes additional examinations and/or studies, e.g. stress tolerance study, functional brain mapping; prescribes laboratory tests if necessary; recommends consultations with other specialists, etc. Based on the results of the consultation and additional examinations, treatment is prescribed.
Treatment methods:
- Primary and repeated consultations of a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist-narcologist on an outpatient basis;
- Neurotherapeutic methods (neurofeedback trainings, bioacoustic correction, audiovisual stimulation, sessions in an oxygen chamber, transcranial electrotherapy techniques, and many others);
- Individual and family psychotherapy;
- Emotional-figurative psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, relaxation trainings and methods of autogenic training, neurolinguistic programming;
- Psychotherapeutic support;
- Pharmacotherapy (antidepressants, tranquilizers, nootropics, medicines of other pharmacological groups).
Indications
- Depressive and anxiety states;
- Panic attacks;
- Phobic disorders;
- Hypochondriacal disorders;
- Eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia;
- Psychosomatic disorders (allergic and skin diseases, bronchial asthma, peptic ulcer disease, autoimmune diseases, male and female infertility, etc.);
- Chronic fatigue syndrome;
- Emotional burnout syndrome;
- Acute and chronic stress disorders;
- Sexual dysfunction, changes in sexual preferences, hypersexuality, impotence, decreased libido;
- Problems in building relationships between children and parents;
- Grief, loss, irreparable loss;
- Feelings of guilt, inability or unwillingness to let go of past mistakes and move on;
- Decreased self-confidence, belittling one's own positive qualities, sense of worthlessness and uselessness;
- Loss of meaning in life, lack of prospects, loss of interests;
- Decreased performance and general tone of the body; low energetic, physical, mental potential;
- Inability to fulfill professional, social, household duties;
- Solitude, withdrawal from social and family life, isolation, lack of initiative and indifference to what is going on;
- Problems with self-identification;
- Stupor at the need to make decisions; slow thinking; decreased mental capacity, inability to concentrate.
Contraindications
Patients under 16 years old are admitted with the consent of a parent or legal representative.
Duration
Primary advice: 60 minutes.
Secondary advice: 30 minutes.
Frequency: individual.