The Kuriki method (the first edition in 2007) is a theory about Tourette’s syndrome (tic disorder) and obsessive-compulsive disorder to cure these diseases without medication. This theory is based on the author’s inference and interpretation regarding the structure of these diseases. Since it has been written for the psychoanalysts, reading will be difficult for people in general and it might be sometimes read erroneously. Therefore the Kuriki method must presuppose that the patient is treated by a nearby psychoanalyst, and that, between the patient and the Kuriki method, there is always the psychoanalyst. The explosion of emotional catharsis, which has strong repercussions, is done only for three seconds, once a week: beyond this rhythm, it would be an accident caused by negligence, and the psychoanalyst who is inexperienced in emotional catharsis must take responsibility for the temporary mental collapse caused by the accident. Also, to the patient who has weak capacity of logical reasoning, the psychoanalyst must explain well on the violent emotion of revenge caused by the illusory confusion between the person of the traumatic image in his head and the person in the real world.
Cure for Tourette’s syndrome (tic disorder) and OCD without medication
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A mechanism of bodily repression (KV) which has become pathological.
KV (Körperliche Verdrängung)
When you are walking, your body weighs on the soles of your feet, but normally you are not conscious of it. Numerous bodily sensations are indeed excluded from the Conscious, such as the contact between the upper lip and the lower lip, the contact of the skin with the interior of clothes, etc. While repression as a term of Freudian psychoanalysis is only the repression which is concerning psychological trauma, in the Kuriki method, a way of treatment for Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder, this term is defined on a much larger domain: repression is defined as the restriction of any kinds of objects of the Conscious; including the restriction of physical sensations. The theory of the Kuriki method exclusively consists of the combinations of repression mechanisms. The lower layer of the structure of tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder is the repression mechanism on traumatic emotion as classical Freudian psychoanalysis and the upper layer is the ordinary repression mechanism with bodily sensations. And, the presence of the upper layer is a tool for the lower layer. The upper layer of the Kuriki method is the structure that is lacking in psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud; that is the reason why Freud could cure neither tic disorder nor obsessive-compulsive disorder. The symptoms of neurosis are bodily symptoms, as bodily sensations, bodily acts, etc., because the presence of a bodily mechanism of repression is a pathological means of repression on the mass of emotion. The neurotic upper layer is a means of repression of the lower layer.
In addition, «rationalization (§13 – §19)» in the theory of the Kuriki method is very different from that of Freud: it requires a deep understanding of the reader.
KV under the domination of tic disorder
(KV itself (1-2-3) is not pathological. Only neurotic KV (4) has compulsivity.)
1. A disagreeable bodily sensation (for example, when a chair is hard, when your legs are tired, etc.) becomes an object of repression.
2. The appearance of disagreeable bodily sensation (sensation of muscular contraction without muscular contraction, sensation of muscular immobility, etc.) fabricated by the Unconscious in the Conscious, becomes a means of repression, i. e., an object of the Conscious.
3. While the Conscious is forced to do the tic movement which corresponds to the sensation-2, the sensation-1 is repressed.
4. The state where the presence of this mechanism 1-2-3 (the upper layer) is a pathological means of repression on the mass of emotion (the lower layer). Neurosis, the state where the structure of tunnel, that forces from 1 to 2, and from 2 to 3, is Absolute Compulsion. Structure of tunnel means, once entered, there is only one exit, i. e., in Absolute Compulsion, the lower layer absolutely needs the upper layer. The force of Compulsion is absolute, because the necessity of the repression is absolute and machinelike. Tic disorder is a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder, involving the sensation of muscular immobility in thought. In the Kuriki Method, this obsession is considered to be able to be eliminated only by emotional catharsis. After the treatment with the Kuriki method, healing of tic disorder, the absolute compulsivity will disappear on the mechanism 1-2-3.
Distinction between tic and tic disorder.
Tic (1-2-3):
Congenital tendency to bodily repression. Various disagreeable physical sensations can be an object of repression; heat, cold, tired legs, sore back, having eaten too much, etc. The function of repression excludes also the libidinal physical sensations from the Conscious; the bladder, the rectum, the genitals, the extremity of the urethra, etc.
Tic disorder (4):
Neurosis. The obsessive invasion of an object in the Conscious is a means of repressing the traumatic emotion. The Unconscious creates the muscular sensation of immobility and amplifies in the Conscious the compulsivity of the act.
The explosive expression of the traumatic emotion, which will reduce the necessity to repress the traumatic emotion, is the abreaction for tic disorder. It is because repression is repression of emotion, and a neurotic symptom is a means of repression.
Therefore, even after the cure of neurosis, when there is obvious disagreeable physical sensation, the physical sensation of KV will appear and a tic movement will be the object of the Conscious. However, the tic movement will not have absolute compulsivity.
The mechanism of the bodily repression (KV).
The function of repression in the Unconscious chooses randomly an object of the Conscious, and excludes the object of repression from the Conscious. In neurosis, the bodily repression will have the absolute compulsivity.
· The « compulsive intramuscular sensation » of tic
The disagreeable bodily sensation of muscle contraction without muscle contraction in a group of voluntary muscles. The sensation of the immobility of voluntary muscle, which is the obsessive object of the Conscious.
· The « compulsive physical sensation » of OCD
The feeling of anxiety is a kind of physical sensation. The disagreeable physical sensation of OCD mimics the adrenaline effects of anxiety on the whole body and the Conscious interprets this disagreeable physical sensation as anxiety on an obsessive random object. In order to repress this disagreeable physical sensation, the same physical sensations overlaps and the concentration of the Conscious on the object of anxiety amplifies itself. If a man with an obsessive-compulsive disorder of hand washing hates consciously microbes, he should wash his anus rather than his hands, but the anal sphincter is a libidinal bodily sensation and rather an object of repression. These compulsive physical sensations are specific sensations that are actually created in a body part by the Unconscious and physically perceived: they are not illusions exclusively in the Conscious. Under the domination of the Absolute Compulsion, the compulsion of the compulsive physical sensation is amplified in the Conscious, and a movement or act at the body level will be forced by the compulsive physical sensation. The amplification is the amplification of the compulsion; for a neurotic patient, the compulsion is perceived only as a kind of physical sensation, and the frame of the Absolute Compulsion is invisible to him. While, in the Conscious, the compulsive object of tic is a group of voluntary muscles that the patient already knows, the compulsive object of obsessive-compulsive disorder is a thing which is before his eyes.
· Phobia : fear is a physical body state and amplifies itself as fear of the change of physical bodily state by fear. The Conscious is forced to get out of the place. For the treatment of phobia, it is important to be able to recognize the emotions such as anger, fear, anxiety, etc., as physical states or physical reactions.
Definition of “KV”
KV is a coined word in the Kuriki method, n. f., stands for Körperliche Verdrängung. Körperliche means bodily, physical. Verdrängung, repression. KV is a false physical sensation, which appears in another body part to represses a real physical disagreeable sensation. KV is supposed to be one of the specificities of Asperger and “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD). The sensation of certain parts of the body is directly conductive with the Unconscious and reacts easily to orders from the Unconscious. Patients with Asperger or ADHD know their neurotic hypersensitivity. Physical sensations such as cutaneous sensation, blood pressure sensation, low salivation sensation, perspiration sensation can be directly under the neurotic structure of the Unconscious.
Neuroticization of KV
In tic disorder of Tourette syndrome, the selected bodily sensation is a kind of sensation of muscular contraction without muscular contraction, which is called « compulsive intramuscular sensation » in the Kuriki method, as an object of obsession. This physical sensation appears with the obsessive idea of muscular immobility. Even coprolalia is formed with a physical sensation of muscular contraction without muscular contraction, of which the motor unit is the group of muscles to pronounce obsessively the word “xxxx”. These physical sensations are symptoms and the Unconscious absolutely needs these symptoms as a part of the neurotic mechanism of repression. A symptom of KV is a means to repress something else, which has almost the same nature as this symptom. The repressed physical sensation of a patient is not necessarily one of the sensations of the genital parts. The appearance of «compulsive physical sensation» of tic can be provoked by ordinary small pains; such as eating too much, cold wind, a chair of which the seat is too hard, a bag that is too heavy to carry, so many stairs to go up, etc.
For example…
1. The Unconscious of a patient wants to repress disagreeable physical sensation of the tired muscles of his legs.
2. As a mecanism of KV Asperger, the Unconscious fabricates « compulsive intramuscular sensation » in the left shoulder as another object of the Conscious.
3. The amplification, in the Conscious, of the obssessive idea on the muscular immobility of his left shoulder.
4. The compulsion to do his tic movement of the left shoulder.
5. And once more, and once more.
The patients with OCD have the appearance of «compulsive physical sensation» which is often cutaneous.
The onset of tic of a child can be very early; it can be at 3 years. His Unconscious wants to repress every little physical pain, unpleasant physical sensation. The tendency to repress the sentiment of the sensation is specific to children with Asperger.
The need of repression of the libidinal body parts such as the urinary organs, the sphincters, the genital parts : for a child of 3 years, these body parts are not sexual in a sense of the word, but very libidinal.
Considering the Libido as a level in the Unconscious, the repression of the genital parts is also the repression of the libidinal traumatic emotion.
The symptoms of neurosis are not movements or acts, but the appearance of the physical sensation which amplifies the obsessive compulsion.
KV is a small triangle: (1) small physical pain, (2) « compulsive physical sensation », (3) the Conscious.
When KV is part of neurosis, the presence of this small triangle represses the big neurotic triangle; (1) the symbolic genitals parts, (2) libidinal traumatic emotion, (3) the Conscious.