Cognitive and affective interaction in the analytic-cathartic therapy
A problem of cognitive and affective interaction in the analytic-cathartic therapy (ACTA) - a short-term modern model of the pathogenetic psychotherapy by V.N. Miasischev - is considered. The method of "conversation" of the pathogenetic psychotherapy is completed by using the technique of “dialogue with imaginary person”, owing to cognitive and affective interventions come to balance so that analytic method of the pathogenetic psychotherapy transforms to analytic-cathartic method. That raises efficacy and shortens duration of the psychotherapy.