We asked to speak about contemporary ...

Behavioral Therapy. Proponents of this method believe that a person learns in life to all, including misconduct. Consequently, with the help of the training can be retrained, replacing the old behaviors with new ones. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) has incorporated techniques from almost all psychotherapeutic techniques. Its founders - Richard Bandler and John Grinder believed the human psyche is akin to the computer, which can be "reprogrammed." Psychodrama. This method of group psychotherapy, which is based on theatrical techniques. Some patients receive a "role" - major or minor, while others become "spectators." Gestalt therapy. Author of the method - Fritz Perls believed that the cause of internal problems of the person lies in his personality that does not make a whole (gestalt). Client-centered therapy. The creator of this technique - Carl Rogers proposed to call the patient by the client. In this regard him as a person, which itself can solve their problems. Therapist only need to listen carefully to the client and send his thoughts. Detail about this in the printed journal. Marina Rusinov Source: magazine "Health" № 10 2004 on the site http://www.zdr.ru/zdr_tmn0410a8.php 

Depression - a Disease or a state of mind?

Each year an increasing number of people diagnosed with depression. We asked to speak about contemporary attitudes to the disease, MD corresponding member. Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, full member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Professor MLMU Eugene A. Shaposhnikov. MH. Depression - a disease or mental condition, peculiar to each individual at certain times of life? E.Sh. Depression - a complex disease of the brain. It falls under the WHO definition in which the disease - this is what breaks somatic, psychological and social welfare. Very common mild forms of depression that man himself is usually not recognized. Approximately 50-70% of the population susceptible to this disease, so it seems that everyone suffers. MH. So what if doctors call depression? E.Sh. Recently, the term "depression" became popularly winged words. Hardly that, the patient himself raises his diagnosis - depression. The population there is a perception that depression - a low mood, fatigue, apathy, impaired function, ie symptoms accompanying a nervous breakdown. However, this disease is beyond the scope of such a household concept. Health understands depression as a combination of certain symptoms, which include depressed state of mind most of the day, nearly constant apathy, general dissatisfaction, decreased daily activity, weight loss without going to a new diet (more than 5% of body weight per month), loss of appetite. Although the latter is optional, depression and obesity may be, when people are "jammed" anguish abundant high-calorie foods. If we continue further, it is almost a chronic insomnia or abnormal sleepiness, psychomotor agitation or retardation - an abnormal acceleration or deceleration of motor activity and mental processes.