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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Tic movements are voluntary movements.
Understanding of «the bodily Absolute Compulsion»
First, the psychoanalyst encourages the patient to study the correct neurological definitions of voluntary movement and involuntary movement. For a patient who is a small child, the psychoanalyst helps him understand the neurological correct definitions of voluntary movement and involuntary movement. The distinction between voluntary movement and involuntary movement is one of the basic knowledge of neurology and can be easily understood even by small children. After that, the psychoanalyst will let the patient think whether his tic movement is a voluntary movement or an involuntary movement. Unconscious resistance will prevent understanding.
For example, a shoulder tic, a panic disorder of crowded train, an obsessive-compulsive disorder of the number 5 and a coprolalia of the word “xxxx” are symptoms of the same disease, which is a state of KV under the reign of the Absolute Compulsion of neurosis. If the therapist has no knowledge of neurosis, he does not know the physical character of neurosis, considers the child with tic nerveux as stupid, however considers his tic movement as involuntary movement, and gives him some medicines so that his parents will not see his tic movement.
Normally, 99% of the voluntary movements are done automatically: in contrast to these innumerable automatic voluntary movements, tic movements are extremely conscious. The involuntary movements are not the movements that you don’t want to do, but the movements that are completely independent of your will. If you can stop a movement even for a second, that movement is a voluntary movement. Since the word “voluntary movement” is defined in neurology, you cannot define it your way. Examples of the involuntary movements are heartbeat, contraction and dilation of the iris of the eye, peristalsis of the digestive tract, hiccups, etc. Tic of involuntary movement is impossible. Tic of heart beat, tic of the iris of the eye, tic of the stomach, tic of the intestines, tic of hiccups, etc., are impossible.
On the other hand, there are some diseases that have involuntary movement of voluntary muscles as symptoms; Parkinson’s disease, facial neuralgia, dystonia, etc. In comparison with these diseases, it is clear that a tic movement is a voluntary movement of voluntary muscles.
Cough is a voluntary movement.
For example, at a classical piano recital, you must hold coughing during each piece. You can cough between plays. That is, coughing is a voluntary movement, even as “cough reflex”. Do you think that the reflex movement when you touch the lid of a hot pot is an involuntary movement?
Hiccups can’t be held. Nobody holds hiccups during a play and nobody does a dozen of hiccups between plays. The movements which you are not able not to do even for a second, which you cannot even have the consciousness to “do”, these are movements called involuntary movements. Hiccup is an involuntary movement and no hiccup tic exists.
In other words, the state of neurosis is recognized by the difference between the forced cough reflex due to a foreign body in the throat and the forced cough tic. “Tic disorder” is a disease, because its forced movement is a voluntary movement. What is the head is called “obsession”.
Breathing is a voluntary movement.
If breathing were an involuntary movement, you could not swim. Breathing is a voluntary movement and it doesn’t mean you can hold breathing for ten minutes. An obsessional movement of tic is a voluntary movement and it doesn’t mean you can hold your tic movement for ten minutes.
You cannot show any involuntary movement. Hiccup is an involuntary movement and you can’t do voluntarily any real hiccup. No tic of hiccup exists.
As all tic movements are voluntary movements, a patient can show the doctor his movement of tic; “I go like that and like that”, etc., because a tic movement is a voluntary movement. At the time of diagnosis, if the patient cannot show the doctor his pathological movement, it is an involuntary movement, and it is not a tic. If the pathological movement of the patient were an involuntary movement, the disease could not be a tic disorder, but something else. One of the conditions for the diagnosis of a tic disorder is that its pathological movement is 100% a voluntary movement.
Laughing tic
Laughter has involuntary elements, reflexive elements, and automatic elements added to a voluntary movement. As a rule, theater comedians playing a funny scene are not allowed to laugh. Often they contract abdominal muscles from the outside to stifle the involuntary elements inside. In other words, it is possible to hold back his laughter for a second in appearance, hiding by voluntary muscles the elements that cannot be held back. Nevertheless, inner spasms are often visible from the outside. On the other hand, when comedians have to laugh on stage, it is impossible even for a great comedian to consciously do a real laugh in which involuntary elements must show up in appearance. An involuntary movement is impossible as a tic movement. A laughing tic exists, but it is always an unnatural voluntary movement. A laughing tic has no involuntary element. It is unnatural laughter, part of coprolalia.
Often people confuse the automatic movements and the involuntary movements in definitions. The contraction and relaxation of each voluntary muscle in several voluntary muscles for a movement. When you walk, the movements of the right foot, the left foot, the right arm, the left arm, breathing, the balance of standing posture, etc., are automatic. Most of the voluntary movements during the day are done automatically. If the automatic movements were involuntary movements, the movement of each one of the muscles in walking would be an involuntary movement. All voluntary movements during sleep are automatic movements. Breathing, which is an automatic voluntary movement, continues during sleep.
The movement of tic is done always by the Conscious, so the movement of tic is not possible during sleep.
The location (body part) and the manner of his tic movement is extremely decisive for a patient, however, often they change. His obsession may be on voluntary muscles in more than one body part. Obsession is not the disease of a body part.
On the other hand, a pathological involuntary movement does not change its location.
The Conscious who has a tic disorder is forced to “do” the tic movement, that it doesn’t want to do at all. The Conscious has to “do” un tic, as being obliged to yield to the physical compulsion of neurosis. A tic movement cannot be an involuntary movement. An involuntary movement is a movement such as the movement of the iris of the eye according to the changes in ambient light. The shrinking of the iris muscles is not something the Conscious can “do”. If you can hold the pathological movement for a second, it is a voluntary movement and it can be a tic movement, and despite the strong sensation of need, if you are able to hold it back for more than one minute, it is not a tic. The habit to crack the knuckles is not Tourette, if you can stay without doing it. The Conscious of the patient made a movement of tic under the absolute compulsion.
A forced voluntary movement.
Tic disorder is an obsession in which the sensation of the presence of a voluntary muscle is the object of the Conscious. The only movements the Conscious can be forced to do are voluntary movements. For a patient with a tic disorder, not to do his tic movement is as impossible as not to do healthy respiration or healthy eye blinkings.
A tic movement needs to be a weird movement, a clearly straight line movement. The intentionality of Obsessive Conscious towards a voluntary muscle prevents the intentionality of the Conscious towards the traumatic emotion and the genital sensation. With this obsessive muscle, the manner of a tic movement is determined by the Unconscious other than the normal ordinary movements. A tic movement needs to be outside the category of the natural movements, because the unconscious objective of a tic movement is that the necessity to do a tic movement must be the permanent object of the patient’s Consciouss. A tic movement should never be considered as a natural movement in the patient’s Conscious. For the remarkable irrationality in the Conscious of the patient, “confirmation” as a false motive is a habitual practice of neurosis.
A word of coprolalia must be peculiar, childish and embarrassing in the patient’s Conscious.
The fact that a tic movement is a voluntary movement is one of the criteria for the diagnosis of Tourette’s syndrome, and the basis of treatment theory.
The disagreeable muscular sensation of a minuscule epilepsy, a minuscule dystonia, etc., can be a means of KV. The diagnosis of the presence or the absence of a fusion with a minuscule epilepsy, a minuscule dystonia, etc., is obligatory.