All persons who attempt suicide are offered a psychiatric treatment, psychopharmacological and psychotherapy too.

Aim of the study is to describe the implementation a psychotherapeutic crisis intervention of suicide attempters.

The subjects consisted of 30 inpatients who attempted suicide of self-poisoning and were treated at Clinic for toxicology in Military Medical Academy Belgrade. We excluded patients with psychosis, substances abuse, dementia. For all patients, suicide attempters, a psychotherapeutic crisis intervention following attempted suicide was applied in order to ease the emotional tension and to help them to explain the possible motives of their suicide, especially to explain “what has really happened”.

We presented some case vignettes of suicide attempters.

The application of psychotherapeutic crisis intervention is well-succeeded, with a good acceptance by our patients

In our hospital psychoeducation is a part of early interventions directed to first episodes of psychotic patients (that includes first 5 years of psychosis). Duration of the programme is one year and it has been influenced by simmilar experiences in Great Britain and PORT˘s recommendations (Sshizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team). A specific quality of the programme is collaboration of group psychotherapy approach conducted by group analysts and psychoeducation conducted by cognitive-behavioral therapists. All therapists involved in the programme have been supervised monthly by proffesionals.

The psychoeducation is common for all patients and their family members.

Number of hospitalisations, cognitive, emotional and social functioning, changes of basic beliefs and present symptoms have been estimated during the programme.

The aim of the poster presentation is to evaluate the efficacy of treatment and rehabilitation of patients that participate in the programme together with pharmacotherapy in order to achieve better treatment efficacy. Patient that have been involved in the both psychoeducation and pharmacotherapy are compared to patients treated with drugs only. Questionnaires that measure self-esteem and loneliness have been used.

Since actual psychoeducation ends at the end of this year, the first results of two first grades are expected at the beginning of 2008.

To evaluate therapeutic touch versus physiotherapy effects on chronic low back pain in female referred to physiotherapy ward of Hafez hospital in Shiraz- Iran.

The sample included 63 female with low back pain for at least 6 months. The participants divided in two groups: there were 30 patients in case and 33 in control groups. The case group received therapeutic touch; 15-20 min daily for 5-10 days. Physiotherapy way conducted for each patient with hot pack and diathermy or hot pack and Transcutanous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for 15-20 min daily in 10 sessions. Another person on a double blind fashion compared the effect of treatments by interviewing the patients of both groups. A 10-degree visual analogue scale measured the severity of pain for 3 times. 30 min before intervention, immediate and 1 month after the last session of intervention in both groups.

there was no significant differences between two groups on reducing of pain immediately after the last session of treatment (p=0.1) follows up of the patients after 1 month showed that the severity and duration of pain were decreased in therapeutic touch group (p=0.02) . the result after one month of treatment showed significant differences between two groups according their level of activities p=(0.04) the usage of analgesic drugs. And sleep disturbance (p:0.06) in- other hands. Touch therapy has more effective than physiotherapy 1 month after treatment in patients with low back pain.

We conclude that therapeutic touch is a safe of effective intervention in reducing of pain.

To demonstrate through 5 classic case examples that major psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety, anger, physical symptoms, depression, and symptoms of borderline personality disorder can be predictably overcome through ‘Breakthrough Intimacy’ - closeness between committed couples far greater than their previous maximum level. The result of this study proves the vital need for and power of, an accurate and comprehensive tracking of each patient's progress on a daily basis.

Lifetrack therapy works with couples (the patient and his/her partner in life) bringing them far closer than ever before, guided by their own daily self-rating on 41 parameters that allow accurate graphic tracking via Internet of subtle changes in their personalities and dynamic mental status during each therapy session. Working in three-way teamwork, the therapist actively helps the couple to achieve closeness far greater than their previous maximum level, overcoming waves of symptom spikes until they disappear by exhaustion, as the couples undergo personality transformation.

Of the 1,170 patients treated over the last 20 years, 48% of patients reached a level of adjustment beyond their previous maximum level. 31% reached a level more than twice, 24% reached more than three times, 20% reached more than four times, 16% reached more than five times, and 7.6% reached more than ten times their previous maximum level of adjustment according to their own daily subjective self-rating.

Psychiatric disorders may be better understood and treated as the natural consequence of one's existing personality which can be transformed through ‘Breakthrough Intimacy’.

The term "mindfulness" has its roots in contemplative meditation traditions. Recently however, mindfulness has entered the scientific discussion in clinical psychology, psychiatry, and in the neurosciences. Moreover, various mindfulness-based interventions have been developed in psychotherapy and psychosomatics.

In this presentation we give a brief overview of some psychological and neuroscience approaches to mindfulness and discuss possible implications for clinical interventions and for research.

Mindfulness practice requires (1) a constant, non-avoiding direction of attention towards an object, mostly an inner object, regardless whether it is pleasant or unpleasant for the individual or not, (2) a relaxing setting, in which experiences are observed and it usually involves (3) regular repeated practice. Neuroscience studies on neuroplasticity showed the relevance of similar factors for learning processes through facilitating the reorganization of cortical networks. Mindfulness meditation practice was found to be associated with brain activity corresponding to a more positive and approach oriented affective style. Consistent with this, several authors found mindfulness meditation to be related to a better modulation of experimental induced negative emotions. Clinical interventions involving mindfulness meditation were found to influence prefrontal brain activity. 8-week mindfulness based programs showed to induce positive changes in the asymmetry patterns of prefrontal brain activity.

Clinical and basic research on mindfulness provides opportunities to investigate domains of mental functioning that are crucial in many mental disorders and were underresearched in the past. Psychological and neuroscience approaches are complementary in this research into helpful change.

1- To study the therapeutic factors of group psychotherapy among opiates dependent patients.2- To study the relation between the therapeutic factors of group therapy and the relapse/sobriety outcome on opiates dependent patients.

The study includes 75 patients in two groups. Group I: 45 opiate dependent patients attending the group sessions of this research. Group II: 30 opiate dependent patients receiving other modes of treatment other than group psychotherapy. Group psychotherapy formed of 15 sessions is conducted for group I. Assessment Tools: Group I and II were subjected to the following: All patients are diagnosed according to the ICD10 discipline, Structured Interview (ICD10), Addiction Severity Index, Rotter Test for locus of control, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Personality Assessment Scale (PAS), group I were subjected to Yalom test for assessing group therapeutic factors.

The outcome of the group I of the study who received 15 sessions of relapse prevention group therapy was more favorable, and relapse rate was lower than group II who received modes of treatment other than psychotherapy.

The aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of different types of psychotherapy in local war participants.

Consecutive adult patients from 18 to 60 (mean = 40.3), who took part in local wars (N = 153) were assessed for in patient treatment at the Smolensk regional hospital for veterans of war.

All of them received pharmacological treatment according to attending doctor's prescriptions.

They had divided into three equal groups (N = 51). In the first group the ericsonian hypnotherapy been used. In second one we used NLP. And the third groups were control. We applied BDI, Spilberger-Hanin, K. Leonhard and complex pain questionnaires during the evaluation of treatment effectiveness. Patients also were followed up 6-8 months after the treatment (N = 43).

The reduction of depression level for both groups of psychotherapy in comparison with control (pharmacological treatment only) had been demonstrated. Catamnestic parameters of subjective pain feeling, levels of depression and personal anxiety in both experimental groups were lower than in control one too.

The researchers couldn't received the reliable definitions between two groups of psychotherapy comparing means. But SD in NLP group was dependable lower, than in the hypnotherapy one (p<0.05).

Spent work shows the effectiveness of using psychotherapy in case of local war participants with somatic complains because it reduces comorbid psychiatric disorders. NLP gives more predicted effect while hypnotherapy is more variable method. But both of them are more effective than out of psychotherapy.

We describe a patient diagnosed as having seasonal affective disorder (SAD, winter depression), an unlikely condition in Israel (latitude 32.6 degrees N), a country with relatively minor daylight photoperiodic changes between seasons.

Case report.

A 46-year-old woman with a clinical picture of depression (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders diagnostic criteria for 'major depression with seasonal pattern') reacted positively to 3 weeks of daily bright light therapy of 10,000 lux/wide spectrum. She was asked to wear dark sunglasses during placebo sessions to accommodate an A-B-C single-case-design. The intervention resulted in an improvement of 74-80% in the Hamilton anxiety and depression scales (clinician-rated) and the Beck depression inventory, similar to results obtained in high latitude regions. The depression and anxiety levels returned close to baseline levels following 1 week of the placebo intervention.

Seasonal affective disorder is apparently not limited to certain latitudes. The effect of light therapy was short-lived after discontinuation of the treatment, with rapid relapse occurring in the placebo phase.

The prevalence rate of headache is 69% (in male) and 88% (in females). This prevalence rate reduces at the age of 50, and this reduction continues in next decades of life. The objective of this survey is the comparison between efficacy and effectiveness rate of two therapeutic approaches (and pharmacotherapy) for tension headache treatment.

In this investigation, 30 persons from patients with chronic tension headache complaint in Ardebil hospitals were selected randomly. These 30 patients were appointed in two tests group and one control group. The patients in first and second group received and pharmacotherapy respectively. The third groups testable were taken for control group and received no intervention. Indices of headache were been evaluated in 3 stages with using of headache diary tool for all of testable, collected Data were analyzed with inferential statistical methods and LSD pair corporations.

Obtained data from ANOVA methods, showed that both two studied methods are effective in treatment of chronic tension headache, but comparison between two groups showed that the groups have received have significant differences with group received pharmacotherapy, for purpose of efficacy rate on duration of headache symptom. In other indices of headache there is no significant difference between these two groups.

This study showed that efficacy rate of stress inoculation training is more than efficacy rate of pharmacotherapy in treatment of tension headache

Dealing with art requires an active sensual involvement and, furthermore, art creates form and meaning. Research in phenomenological psychopathology finds, that schizophrenic psychopathology develops from a destruction of the patient's very primary sense of self (ipseity) leading to a breakdown of meaning. Art therapy may therefore be useful in the treatment of schizophrenia.

Art therapy research is very sparse and inconclusive although it is used rather extensively in psychiatry. The lack of a common theory and practice within this field may be an obstacle for further investigation.

This study describes a phenomenological based art therapy and presents a qualitative analysis of possible connections between the art making and the psychopathology.

Two groups of five patients received art therapy during one year. The logbooks, pictures, interviews and evaluations were used for a narrative description and a hermeneutic, phenomenological analysis.

All patients found the art therapy helpful. Common trends were that the patients obtained a more clear sense of who they were or that they accepted themselves and their illness better. In addition, the paranoid patients experienced a subjective reduction of anxiety while painting. These effects seem to be connected to the active and sensing interaction with the art material and the creation of meaning in the paintings.

The study shows that art making may affect psychopathology. A possible connection between art and psychopathology was established via phenomenological psychopathology and the philosophical concept of primary sense of self.

application of the comprehensive approach to psychotherapy distinguished by a combination of individual and familial activities at the early regenerative stage for post-stroke patients allows reducing the rehabilitation period and extending opportunities for patients' adequate functioning in the social environment in general and in family, in particular.