A trial of using psychotherapy in the sanatorium on servicemen with psychosomatic pathology of the cardiac system
Gvazava, V.E.; Fedenko, A.I.; Vinokurov, I.V.; Kataeva, E.M.; Bulyshchenko, G.N.; Sheina, S.G.
Voprosy Kurortologii Fizioterapii i Lechebnoi Fizicheskoi Kultury 6: 9-12
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8787 PMID: 10641539 Document Number: 498559
Administration of rehabilitation psychotherapy, including pathogenetic and symptomatic psychotherapy, raises efficacy of combined sanatorium treatment of early stages of such cardiological diseases as ischemic heart disease, angina of effort class I, essential hypertension stage I. Psychotherapy also promotes relief of psychoemotional stress, anxiety, frustration, rigidity, aggression, alexithymia, asthenia being primary and secondary prophylaxis of psychosomatic disorders.