Psychotherapy of patients with alcoholism

In recent years, biological methods and psychotherapy have been more widely used in the treatment of patients with chronic alcoholism. The search for new methods of treatment is explained, on the one hand, by the urgency of the problem of chronic alcoholism therapy in narcology, and on the other hand, by decrease of therapeutic efficiency of traditional sensitizing methods of treatment. In this regard, psychotherapeutic methods are increasingly being used since it is with their help that patients with alcoholism can overcome such phenomenon as anosognosia and then develop the desire to completely abstain from alcohol. At present in the domestic practice of psychotherapy for patients with chronic alcoholism there is a tendency to use a complex of methods with an emphasis on group forms of work. Attempts are made to combine collective methods of psychotherapy, which have the advantage of mutual influence of patients on each other, with the most individualized approach and coverage of each member of the psychotherapeutic group, based on personal properties of the patient's premorbid, properties of the disease development of personality, features of the patient's microsocial environment, personal value orientations.