EUROMEDICA  Hanover 29-30  Mai 2006	Advanced methods of diagnosis, treatment and prophylactics
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow

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The world statistics shows that for two last decades the weight of the human population has increased by 16 kg! Nowadays constitution-exogenous (alimentary) obesity is one of the most common diseases among the population causing numerous illnesses that shorten man’s life. This is also facilitated by a severe food imbalance, low physical activity combining with accelerating psychological stress. This problem is becoming even more actual due to low efficiency of existing and actively promoted methods of obesity treatment.

Besides, in obesity patients there is a strong emotional strain, high level of anxiety and stress, auto- and hetero- aggression, isolation, mistrust, susceptibility to frustration combined with setting high goals. This induces psychological problems in the person resorting to hyperalimentation and hypodynamia, which lead to obesity as a compensatory and socially approved source of positive emotions.

The system of goals and tasks of the psychological correction in obesity patients depends on age-related, personal, social-psychological and motivation factors and is based on detecting and correcting those personal characteristics, which are favorable for hyperalimentation and hypodynamy as the forms of pathological reaction to psychotrauma. It is aimed at revealing the role of psycho-social factors on development of obesity, forming adequate mechanisms of psychological adaptation, adapting the patients to more constructive behavior. Its key point is motivation of the personality so that it accepts the low-calorie diet not as a burden but as an only possible natural way of nutrition.

Our method of psychological correction of overweight and obesity (Patent RF Nr 2218944), reviewed in the present article, enjoys a high scientifically justified efficiency (about 90%). It was developed and approved by the firm «Biointermed» in 1990 and for almost 17 years have been practiced in Russia.

It is a group method comprising three daily and four night sessions (total 24 hours of psychotherapy) includes rational, trance, transpersonal psychotherapy and elements of self-coding, programming and psychoanalysis aimed at decreasing appetite and stomach volume, accelerating of metabolism. As the result of the complex approach one gets a smaller stomach, an improved metabolism, decreased appetite – so a steady dominant for losing weight is introduced, psychological ground for overweight is determined and an individual strategy of weight loss is developed In other words new stable attitude to one’s body and health is adopted.

The patients should clearly understand that acquiring a beautiful body is a time-consuming process requiring adherence to certain rules, here are some of them:

1. You should carry on the motivation of loosing weight, the aim of being thinner.
2. You cannot lose weight without changing yourself. Achieving one goal keep on setting the new one. But weight loss should not be the main and primary goal.
3. Do not pick up a diet that you cannot keep all life long. You can eat everything but with an individually limited calorie value and at the same time enjoying and getting full with the food.
4. Never fight against your body type and genetics you inherited from your parents.