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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KV; the upper layer repressing the lower layer.
The symptoms of KV are as follows :
· Tourette’s syndrome (tic disorder)
· Obsessive compulsive disorder (compulsions)
· Impulse control disorder (trichotillomania, onychophagia, dermatillomania, etc.)
While there are different types of neuroses, their lower layer, i.e., the accumulation of potential energy of emotion, is identical. Potential energy of emotion is a disagreeable judgment that has not been expressed by a disagreeable emotion yet; freezing of disagreeable judgment. Freezing is the solid state at a temperature below 0°C and also the state “freeze” in computer terminology. As the disagreeable judgment is not expressed, the traumatic image is a happy image.
Potential emotion = Non-expressed disagreeable judgment
The mechanism of the upper layer = KV
The same lower layer, that is to say, the same mass of emotion, can cause tic symptoms or OCD symptoms, etc., as a means of repression.
There are two kinds of rationalizations at the different levels.
(1) Rationalization in the upper layer for the arbitrary choice of tic movement and the muscle, (shoulder or eyes, etc.). the arbitrary choice of words of coprolalia. The movement is always accompanied by a false reason.
(2) Rationalization for the arbitrary choice of the type of KV, that is to say, for the arbitrary choice of the type of the upper layer (tic disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc.). The choice of a KV does not imply false reason, but this arbitrary choice can be a rationalization. Here, the term “rationalization” means the transformation of the operation of repression at libidinal level, which is completely unconscious, into the operation of refoulement at the bodily level with pathological bodily sensations and pathological bodily acts. Unconscious repression is rationalized into the body under Compulsion-Absolute. Rationalization means the diversion of awareness.
As the upper layer is a means of repression of the lower layer, the rationalization is also the mechanism of arbitrary choice of the type of KV. A type of KV will be selected, regardless of the content of the psychic trauma, among motor tic, obsessive-compulsive disorder, coprolalia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, etc. A person who has at the same time two types of KV in the upper layer, such as a tic disorder and an obsessive-compulsive disorder, has a common lower layer of neurosis to these two types of KV. If a person who has a tic disorder as neurosis does only awareness of bodily sensations for the upper layer and if this person doesn’t do emotional catharsis for the lower layer, logically there will be a possibility that the type of KV changes into another type of KV, for example into an obsessive-compulsive disorder. The treatment for the lower layer is necessary. So, if a person who has a tic disorder treats both the upper layer and the lower layer, this person will not have other types of neurosis. While there are individual differences in the manifestation of symptoms, here, a schematic understanding is important.
As the central trauma is a certain determined image, the solution of this trauma is the end of the treatment of neurosis, and theoretically there will be no recurrence despite the predisposition of a very strong repression. After the emotional catharsis, the lid of repression will be less hermetic; i. e., the lid of repression is the insulator, and the patient will know the existence of this insulator after the emotional catharsis. Just as the treatment of myopia is to put on glasses, the treatment of KV is to know the existence of the insulator.
As imagens traumáticas podem formar uma estrutura “nesting”, como uma cebola ou uma matrioshka (boneca russa). Several traumatic images can form a nesting structure, like an onion or a Russian nesting doll. The central traumatic image is an image of which the disagreeable judgment has been perfectly repressed in very early childhood; it will be found inside the posterior disagreeable images. It is an image that should have been obviously disagreeable for this small child. As the central trauma is a trauma in early childhood, it is possible that the patient cannot really remember of it and has to infer logically. In addition, the traumatic image in early childhood may be an erroneous judgment and may be different from the reality: in that case, the patient must logically infer this erroneous judgment.
For the central trauma, without big explosion, catharsis will be done little by little, once a week, just only three seconds.
Patients of autism spectrum, such as Asperger’s syndrome, and patients of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) often have a tic disorder, but Asperger’s Syndrome and ADHD are not symptoms of neurosis. (§ 39, § 42)