Why do people continue to suffer from chronic diseases despite advances in science? Why does traditional medicine eliminate the symptoms, but they come back again and again?
Because a separate organ or tissue affected by the disease is being treated, and not the person as a whole. And the main thing in a person is his personality, psyche, his soul. Even Socrates wrote: "There is no bodily disease apart from the soul." If you treat the particular, ignoring the whole, it is impossible to defeat the disease!
The achievements of new sciences - psychoneuroimmunology, epigenetics, psychoneuroendocrinology - convincingly prove that most diseases are of a psychosomatic nature.
They are caused by chronic psychophysiological stress that suppresses the immune system and other systems of protection and self-regulation of the body. Stress is caused by unresolved difficult life problems, incurable psychotrauma, intra- and interpersonal conflicts, and repressed feelings. The longer such a conflict lasts, or the untreated psychotrauma persists, the deeper the chronic stress and the more seriously the function of the affected organ is impaired - up to the development of cancer.
Therefore, a complete cure is impossible without eliminating the psychological causes of the disease!
What is psychosomatic pathology from a scientific point of view? This health disorder occurs as a result of the process of somatization - a person's tendency to experience psychological stress at the physiological level, in other words, the “embodiment” of negative emotions in the body, which leads to the formation of uncomfortable sensations, and if they persist for a long time, to various violations of the structure and functions of internal organs.
Somatization can be acute when it is mediated by acute stress (for example, the loss of a loved one) - the most striking example is myocardial infarction. Or persistent (chronic, stubbornly ongoing), reflecting protracted psychological problems, and can last a lifetime, turning into a psychosomatic illness. Such a disease indicates a violation of the integrity of a person, a lack of harmony between the mental, social, spiritual and physical levels of his being.
The process of formation of a psychosomatic disorder begins with single psychosomatic reactions. Their manifestations disappear when the stressful situation that caused these reactions changes. If the situation persists, a functional psychosomatic syndrome arises (the so-called organ neurosis - without organic changes), which is characterized by the repeated occurrence of somatic symptoms in the patient. As a result, the actual psychosomatic disease (psychosomatosis) develops with morphological (structural) changes in the organs. It is based on the formation of psychophysiological disease dominants.
The most important factor that determines the severity of this process is the duration of the existence of a traumatic factor (conflict) that causes chronic emotional stress. Gradually develop neurosis, anxiety disorder, depression. This, in turn, leads to the depletion of the adaptive capabilities of a person and the chronification of disorders in the functions of internal organs. In other words, the deeper the chronic psychophysiological stress, the more intense the process of somatization shifts towards organic changes.
At the dawn of the formation of psychosomatics in the middle of the last century, seven diseases were classified as psychosomatosis - bronchial asthma, arterial hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, ulcerative colitis, thyrotoxicosis, neurodermatitis (the so-called "holy seven").
Surprisingly, despite the fact that even orthodox medicine recognized these diseases as psychosomatic, they are still treated mainly with medication - simply because most people do not know that psychotherapy brings the greatest benefit in their treatment!
Subsequently, myocardial infarction, angina pectoris (coronary heart disease), osteochondrosis, eczema, psoriasis, herpes zoster, mastopathy, psychosomatic thyrotoxicosis, type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity and somatoform disorders, and then radiculitis, migraine, intestinal colic, syndrome irritable bowel, gallbladder dyskinesia, chronic pancreatitis and infertility with excluded pathology of the reproductive system, and others. Today, psychosomatics “… shows a clear desire to expand its competence to include groups of diseases that have traditionally been classified as internal, infectious, neurological and mental diseases proper,” writes a prominent representative of psychosomatic medicine in Germany, Walter Breutigam. And as the book proves "Carcinogenic Mind", written by the head of our center, candidate of medical sciences V. L. Matrenitsky, even cancer can be considered a psychosomatic disease.
In general, dividing diseases into “psycho-” and “somatic” loses all meaning today. It is becoming increasingly clear that any human pathology is primarily a psychosocial problem. You may ask why medicine does not trumpet about this? Well, which of the doctors wants to lose their jobs, clients, habitual way of life, retrain ... In fact, pharmacologically oriented medicine should rightly be called symptomatic medicine, focused only on eliminating bodily signals of psychological problems.
What is the peculiarity of the integrative psychosomatology we are developing? Integrity means approaching a person as a single system, where the body, energy, mind and spirituality are equal partners. Therefore, unlike classical psychosomatology, built mainly on the psychoanalytic principles of Sigmund Freud, we work with the patient on the corresponding four levels of his being.
The latest scientific data show that psychotherapy in the treatment of somatic diseases has the same real and profound effect on the body as pharmacological drugs.
According to studies conducted at Miami University, under the influence of a course of psychotherapy, the content of the stress agent, the hormone cortisol, decreases in the blood, and the activity of genes responsible for inflammatory reactions in leukocytes decreases. Scientists from the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences have shown that the use of suggestive methods can cause a long-term increase in the content of stem cells in peripheral blood and an increase in the length of telomeres (end sections of chromosomes) of lymphocytes. This was reflected in the normalization of the parameters of the immune status of patients. A DNA study by Italian scientists found that psychotherapy leads to a change in gene activity within 90-120 minutes from the start of its use.
Thus, under the influence of our therapy program, changes occur in the genetic apparatus of organs and tissues, which is the biological basis for activating the processes of healing from the disease.
We treat any psychosomatic diseases, in particular:
- rheumatoid arthritis
- fibromyalgia
- bronchial asthma
- migraine
- irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis
- peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum
- thyrotoxicosis (hyperthyroidism)
- psychogenic infertility
- gynecological diseases
- chronic pelvic pain
- neurodermatitis (atypical dermatitis), psoriasis, eczema
- allergies
- diabetes
- metabolic syndrome
- and other stress syndromes: earlier aging, encephalopathy, consequences of Cjvid-19, chronic fatigue etc.