EP0160680A1 - Method for psychotherapy against dependance behaviour by complementing rituals, by use of game devices with dynamic visual games (for example video computer systems) - Google Patents

Abstract

The method, which the inventor calls reverse ritual therapy, uses computer-developed reverse rites (anti-rites) (as if one were showing a film backwards) rites whose observation and participation in these rites create a addictive behavior, such as smoking, drinking alcohol, taking drugs, etc. (habits that can be compared to a normal projection towards the front of a film). The hypothesis is that hypnosis of computer-developed reverse rites neutralizes and eliminates hypnosis from addictive rites. Since the human brain, when its center of desire is activated, produces its own human narcotic, like morphine-like endorphins, and since video games (games with TV) cause the desire for the game, the inventor expects that the desire for the video computer game will cause the brain to produce its own narcotics and in this way using video computer games, it wants to create Pavlov reflexes between the production of narcotics of the brain and the desire and rejection images of misuse or abuse (for example of narcotics), so that each time the player has for example a rite of rejection of narcotics his center of desire of the brain then begins to producing narcotics and rewarding it with pleasure instead of punishment and effort, unlike most other methods that are far too demanding in most cases. The invention is based on the use of desire and pleasure of the body against destructive desire and pleasure from the outside. A force of great intensity coming from outside will collide with an opposite and complementary force of equal intensity coming from inside the body.

Description

Method for psychotherapy against depenriance behaviour by complementing rituals, by use of game devices with dynamic visual games (for example Video Computer Systems) .

Using of game devices with dynamic visual games (for instance Video Computer Systems) for psychotherapy against abnormal dependence behaviour (for instance of alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, food, salt, sex, partner, place, crime, objects, stimuli, fast driving, habits, culture patterns, etc) through visual, emotional and repeating programming of the brain with complementing game-ritual in opposite direction (knife back in the sheath) of the ritual which has created the dependency.

The invention belongs simultaneously to the areas toys, educational means and means for psychotherapy against abnormal dependencies of differnt kinds.

The invention is based on a ready developed and very widely used technology, mostly in the household, technology for which the society already has invested large amounts, as for instance Video Computer Systems, Home Computors, video tape recorders etc, which just have to be completed with a new program device (for instance Video pac), a new program or tape recording, for a new certain purpose; psychotherapy against abnormal dependencies of different kinds. The method is based on entertainment (pleasure) with eventual reward, as in nature in which learning exceedingly is a visual game ritual in entertainment form during which the characters repeat dynamic pictures which they watch in waking or in dreaming. As in nature is the method using a lot of emotions. The entertainment (pleasure), with eventual reward, makes the method sufficiently attractive for children, youths and the majority of adults, for whom entertainment is a stronger motive than duty. The invention is using electronic game rituals since the rituals in nature are something which communicate with the oldest and most primitive part of the brain which handles rituals and is the part that is most receptive for suggestions and at the same time has the strongest influence over the functions of the body. The most developed parts have the strongest resistance against suggestions and at the same time the weakest influence over the functions of the body. In this way, similar to hypnosis, is to different degrees eliminated the ego of the individual, censoring and eventual resistance.

By some examples is better explained the idea of the invention: During the game is the player (patient) trying to take a lighted cigarette from the mouth of a smoker (with whom he identifies) in different situations; to put it out, put it in the packet and to throw the packet back to the shop which sells cigarettes. In this way is the player (patient) performing a neutralizing and complementing ritual which moves in the opposite direction of the ritual which created the dependency behaviour (the base-ritual). The complementing (neutralizing) ritual is a mirror-image of the base(submission)ritual.

During an other game is the player (patient), during the whole game, trying to brake and reduce the speed to a normal level of a car which drives to fast. In this way is this complementing

(neutralising or releasing ritual) neutralizing the subjecting (base-) ritual which is a mirror-image (the car accelerating) to the complementing ritual (the car braking). In this way is the "free radicals" of the thoughts and emotions becoming bound and neutralized.

Claims

Patent claim.

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Using of game devices with dynamic visual games (for instance Video Computer Systems) for psychotherapy against abnormal dependency behaviour, for example of alcohol, tobacco^ narcotics, food, salt, sex, partner, places, cirme, objects, stimuli, fast driving, habits, culture patterns, etc, by visual, emotional and repeating programming of the brain with a complementing game ritual in opposite direction (on the principle knife back in the sheath) of the base-ritual which created the dependency and subjection.