The method I use in my work is called Positive Psychotherapy. It is a psychodynamic modality, created in early 1963. Nosrat Peseshkian – professor of medicine. The method is used to assess actual strengths and capabilities of the client to cope, without delving deeper into the symptoms. This way, the client is encouraged to explore and utilise their own resources and to transform the symptoms or to adapt more successfully various aspects of their life.
The method is applied to:
- Clinical and psychotherapeutic work
- Neurotic symptoms in children and adults – anorexia, bulimia, depression, anxiety, fears and phobias, obsessions, insomnia, malnutrition
- Psychosomatic problems – gastritis, colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, persistent diabetes, post-infarction conditions, high blood pressure, migraine, etc.
- Interpersonal, partner and family conflicts
- Working with problem children and adolescents
- Developmental crisis, adaptation and crisis interventions (processing of loss and grief)
- Pedagogical support
- Corporate consulting and management
- Individual self-help sessions and self-help groups
More about the method can be found on the website of the Bulgarian Society for Positive Psychotherapy: https://dppb.org