Personality-oriented (reconstructive) psychotherapy with the integration of cognitive and hypnosuggestive techniques when treating somatoform disorders
A model of personality-oriented (reconstructive) psychotherapy with the integration of cognitive and hypnosuggestive techniques when treating somatoform disorders is presented. This model of psychotherapy from the standpoint of biopsychosocial approach takes into account the uniqueness of the clinical picture and the personality characteristics of this category of patients. Cognitive techniques help to increase awareness, to adjust maladaptive somatocentered concept of disease in these patients and open the way for depth psychotherapy, and the use of active hypnotic techniques helps to circumvent resistance and, through psychotherapeutic work on the subconscious, to achieve positive change not only in the symptoms, but also in the system of relations between individual patients with somatoform disorders. The model shows that psychopharmacotherapy appears to be useful in some cases.