Abstract:
The article actualizes the issue of the effectiveness of the
influence of Katathym-Imaginative Therapy on the correction of mental
disorders. An analysis of an empirical study of the features of the
influence of Katathym-Imaginative Therapy on the correction of mental
disorders in neurotic conditions is conducted. The purpose of the study: a
psychological analysis of the concepts of “psychogeny”, “neurosis” and
“neurosis-like conditions”; An empirical study of the effect of Symbol
Drama on mental states of patients with neurotic disorders. The following
methods were used: conversation, testing (“Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory ММРI ”, “SAN” method, “Self-assessment of
mental states” test by G. Aysenck, O. Kondash’s scale of socialsituational anxiety, PEN Questionnaire (Hans and Sibylla Aysenck)
of the Katathym-Imaginative Psychotherapy methods, which forms the
experiment. The sample included 86 people - patients of the neurological
department of the Vinnitsa Regional Psycho-Neurological Hospital
named after academician Nikolai Yushchenko. Based on the correction
program with the help of the Katathym-Imaginative Therapy it is proved
that the Katathym-Imaginative Therapy method is a quite effective means
of psycho-correction of mental conditions of patients with neurotic
disorders, and is more effective with labile mental states, where the
emotional component is crucial, and is less effective in the less emotional
stable psychological state.
