Open AccessINTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTICAL APPROACH FOR HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS WITH ALEXITIMIA
Author(s) -
Rodica MITREA
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
romanian journal of medical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-6108
pISSN - 1842-8258
DOI - 10.37897/rjmp.2017.4.12
Subject(s) - anxiety , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , integrative medicine , psychology , test (biology) , music therapy , psychiatry , medicine , alternative medicine , paleontology , pathology , biology , economics , macroeconomics
Today in Western countries there is a considerable increase in the interest of physicians and patients for the psychotherapeutic and medical treatment of cardiovascular patients with other psychological variables (alexitimia, anxiety, depression, stress). The present study was born from the need to implement in our country the psychotherapeutic treatment in the support and treatment of the patients with clinical illness (and a psychoactive component in this illness). Objectives. We will highlight some of them: – identifying the unconscious conflicts underlying the mechanisms of psychosomatic symptom formation; – identifying psychological parameters for anxiety, depression, stress, alexitimia, by means of psychological tests; – use of integrative psychotherapy techniques for the treatment of the psycho-emotional balance and health status. Material and methods. The current study (this is part of a wider research) includes 92 adults (males and females) aged 40 to 74 with a diagnosis (established by specialist doctors) of hypertension and alexitimia. The methods of psychological treatment are specific to integrative psychotherapy, plus the Diagnostic Musical Test (Iamandescu) and the Therapeutic Aperture Test (T.A.T). The results revealed that integrative psychotherapy, along with music therapy (Iamandescu) and the Therapeutic Aperture Test T.A.T., may decrease the value of psychological parameters (for alexitimia, anxiety, depression, stress) and restore the health status of patients participating in the study.