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- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1. Work through Phobias and Panic Attacks
- 1.1. Introduction
- Ten minutes
- Fast facts about developing phobias
- It is not enough just to understand
- The active role of a patient
- 1.2. What is a phobia: general remarks
- Sad statistics
- Risk factors
- Other risk factors
- Special cases
- What doesn’t have to be treated
- A phobia is an information trauma
- A phobia is similar to an allergy
- What do our sensations reveal to us?
- Ways to react
- Psychocatalysis helps in the case of phobias
- 1.3. How phobias appear
- Rest state
- The beginning of neurosis
- Neurophysiology of fear
- Phenomenology of fear
- 1.4. Other ways of working with phobias
- 1.5. How one can overcome fear and enjoy living
- Start with a simple drawing
- Set yourself free from fear
- A case from practice. Fear of fainting
- A case from practice. Mother-in-law in my chest
- A case from practice. A sniper
- 1.6. Step-by-step algorithm of “removing fear from the body” and the subsequent work with a phobia
- 1.7. “I’m not afraid any more”: illustrative cases from my practice
- Claustrophobia
- “I’m afraid of being attacked from behind”
- “Shivaite!”: a powerful process of self-regulation after a deep-rooted trauma
- “I’m afraid of cars”
- “I’m afraid of driving”
- “I’m afraid of dying during labour”
- “I’m afraid of flying”
- “I’m afraid of leaving the house”
- “I am afraid of getting stabbed in the back”
- Fear of loneliness
- Fear of the spirits of ancestors
- “I’m afraid of staying home alone”
- A lopsided elevator
- Fear of exams
- “I’m afraid of the hum of the engine on the plane”
- “I’m afraid of hearing the sound of a falling body”
- “I’m afraid of an upset stomach”
- Fear after a friend’s suicide
- “I’m afraid of cruelty”
- Post-rape spatial distortion
- 1.8. Psychotrauma in utero
- “I look over my shoulder in the bathroom and I’m afraid that they will kill me”
- 1.9. Psychotrauma at birth
- “I’m afraid of tunnels”
- 1.10. Ancestral fear
- “I stop halfway to the success”
- 1.11. Fear substitutes
- A case from practice. Anger masked as fear
- “I was attacked by a paedophile.” Hyper control was the result of long-time fear
- 1.12. Conclusion. Get your energy back
- 1.13. The rise of the dream
- “I’m afraid of dying”
- 1.14. “I worry about my health”
- Prince Gotama
- Undermined trust
- Hypochondrium
- It’s absurd
- The two ingredients of fear for health
- A case from practice. Sweeping out that fear
- A case from practice. Over treated
- A case from practice. A floating kidney
- The meaning of life
- 1.15. If your brain is “starving”: this may be a reason for anxiety and panic
- Panic attacks, sympathoadrenal episodes
- Conflict between intake and supply
- Feeling literally depressed
- Mysterious signs
- The key
- Grounds for panic attacks
- What should one do?
- A case from practice. A toy from the trunk
- 1.16. Taking in the knowledge with the body
- A case from practice. “I am reserved and I’m afraid of changes”
- 1.17. Algorithm for taking knowledge into the body
- 1.18. The method of diagnostic phrases is an effective way of testing and reinforcing the new state
- Suggestion and autosuggestion: formulae of success
- “I’m scared my boyfriend will dump me”
- 1.19. Action algorithm from the “diagnostic phrases” method
- 1.20. “Imagine…”: the method of diagnostic images and ideas
- 1.21. Difficult cases
- A case from practice. Fears in the midst of an attack
- Exhausted
- 1.22. Natural predisposition to shame and fear
- A case from practice. “I feel ashamed and scared”
- 1.23. Work in different directions
- What else can we do to help?
- Lack of confidence and fear have to be treated differently
- Part II. Psychological Traumas
- 2.1. Kinds of psychological traumas: understand them in order to heal them
- Kinds of traumas depending on how massive and painful they are
- Kinds of traumas based on their direction and “gates”
- 2.2. Heal yourself from disappointment and feeling offended
- False expectations. Risk factors that trigger feeling offended
- Enchantment — Disappointment
- How different personality types react to offense
- Typical symptoms of offense
- Explore step by step that sinking feeling
- What your body might experience when feeling offended
- It’s not enough to forgive
- 2.3. Algorithm for working with the offense
- “I feel like I am being used’
- “I was deceived”
- 2.4. Natural predisposition to getting offended
- “I want revenge”
- 2. 5. Special cases. The offense of the womb
- 2.6. Disappointment and offense: two sides of the coin
- “Immune” to offense: what does it depend on?
- 2.7. Injustice and betrayal: how to work through the consequences
- When your friend betrays you
- A case from practice. A watch on the right wrist
- “It’s not my fault”
- A case from my practice. “My daughter is pulling out her hair”
- 2.8. Insults and abusing language: how to work through the consequences
- A gobbling mother
- 2.9. Psychological attack and anger response; how to work through consequences
- A case from my practice. “My future mother-in-law doesn’t approve of me”
- 2.10. Infidelity and jealousy: how to work through traumas in intimate relationships
- A case from practice “Chase the beloved!”
- 2.11. Action plan to fight infidelity and jealousy
- 2.12 Trauma associated with organic lesion of CNS: working through the consequences
- A case from practice. “Hallucinations”
- A case from practice. An exposed brain
- 2.13. Loss and grief: how to overcome them
- A case from practice “Life is ruined”
- Resistance Factors
- A case from practice. An awful tragedy (1)
- 2.14. Algorithm of working with grief
- A case from practice. An awful tragedy (part 2)
- 2.15. Feeling sorrow after a loss: how can one “restore” that part of the soul
- A case from practice “I miss my dead husband”
- Pain of the grandmother
- Mum
- Family tree
- 2.16. Step aside from dead-end projects
- A case from practice. Ancient history
- 2.17. The algorithm of “getting the potential back”
- Heart in the wrong place
- 2.18. How to stop dreaming
- A case from practice. Action-style dreams
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Summary
- Appendix I. The list of Phobias
- Appendix II. Brief algorithm of how to use the method of Psychocatalysis
- About the Author