Various varieties of therapeutic actions are used to work with the human subconscious mind. Among the directions of psychotherapy in particular, the following can be distinguished:
Psychoanalysis – a method of influence on mental disorders, based on the theory developed by Sigmund Freud in 1890. It consists of working with internal, unconscious, irrational drives, defense mechanisms, and unconscious material by making it conscious. It is working with inner mental processes and resolving conflicts between the conscious and unconscious parts of our selves.
Gestalt therapy – focused on self-awareness, based on an experimental-phenomenological approach. In the process of therapy, a holistic image (gestalt), an independent personality, is recreated and strengthened. Gestalt therapy is aimed at realizing and accepting a person’s self, rejected thoughts, emotions, needs, and individuality. One of the main principles of Gestalt therapy is completeness, the ability to live here-and-now, to enjoy every moment.
Art therapy is the expression and exploration of one’s own self through art. Through art a person conveys his/her emotions – anger, joy, fear, resentment, love, hate. Thus, there is self-expression and achievement of inner harmony, release of negative energy in a healthy way.
Existential psychotherapy – implies a person’s search, setting life goals, priorities, what to go for and ways to achieve it. It emphasizes core values. The goal is to get rid of suffering, focus on the main problems of existence, getting rid of fears, addictions, depression, obsessive thoughts, loneliness. Existential psychotherapy covers life situations, answers the question of what happens to us, not how we came to it, helps a person to realize who he is and who he wants to be.
Hippotherapy – treatment of psychological problems, as well as neurological disorders and other diseases with the help of horses, riding.
