Using the Method of Special Breathwork and Ideomotor Exercises for Psychocorrection of Adaptation-Related Disorders in Flying Personnel
- Authors: Ivanov I.V.1,2, Zheltyi O.P.3,4, Ishchenko P.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
- Aff2
- 12 Consulting and Diagnostic Center of the Ministry of Defense of Russia
- Aff4
- Issue: Vol 45, No 7 (2019)
- Pages: 786-792
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0362-1197/article/view/178449
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119719070089
- ID: 178449
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Abstract
After medical examination, members of flying personnel were divided into a group of essentially healthy people (control) and a group with the risk of preneurotic disorders due to lowered mental adaptability to the flying environment. A rehabilitation program consisting of a system of person-centered rational psychotherapy supported by a course of holotropic breathwork (breathing and ideomotor exercises) proved to be effective in abating preneurotic disorders. Altered states of consciousness achieved by holotropic breathwork have helped to correct rigid dominant mental conditions that distort the sense of professional motivation and deform behavioral typology. Therefore, holotropic breathwork recovers adaptability of pilot’s personality as a whole.
About the authors
I. V. Ivanov
Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University; Aff2
Author for correspondence.
Email: ivanov-iv@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow; State Scientific Research Institute of the Military Medicine,
Saint Petersburg Federal Research Center of Physical Education and Sport, Moscow
O. P. Zheltyi
12 Consulting and Diagnostic Center of the Ministry of Defense of Russia; Aff4
Email: ivanov-iv@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow; Branch of Kirov Military Medical Academy, Moscow
P. V. Ishchenko
Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
Email: ivanov-iv@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow