Assessment of cardiorespiratory functions in patients receiving suggestive psychotherapy
Klassina, S.I.; Dudnik, E.N.; Oshovskaia, B.L.; Sytin, G.N.; Fudin, N.A.; Sudakov, K.V.
Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk 7: 8-13
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-6047 PMID: 19708584 Document Number: 629008
It is shown that suggestive psychotherapy based on verbal suggestions provides a tool for individual correction of the patient's functional state. It reduces sympathetic and promotes parasympathetic influences, decreases high initial level of psychoemotional tension, and normalizes relationship between cardiac and respiratory rhythms. Also, suggestive psychotherapy has beneficial effect on the psychological sphere and subjective feeling of well-being, reduces anxiety, strengthens the sense of confidence and hope for a cure.