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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Emotion as expression to other people
To discipline their children who cry or who get angry, the parents teach the uselessness of these acts. No parents will give in to those performances of the children. Emotion arises by themselves, and also emotion can be an impulsive means of expression for claims. Since the baby instinctively claims against hunger, emotional gestures become means to realize the claims. Emotional gestures of children, such as get angry, cry, etc., are theatrical acts to get the things they want, or to refuse the things they don’t want to do. These emotions are expressions to surrounding persons, such as their parents.
Emotion as expression in the head.
It may happen that an emotion is repressed in the head; emotion as the expression of the judgment about something that should have been disagreeable. This thing would be disagreeable, if the judgment had been expressed by an emotion. The expression of an emotion gives the existence to a judgment. The repression of this emotion can be the repression of the existence of this judgment. It is a state where a judgment has been done, but its expression is blocked.
The insulator is obliged to continue to block the flow, which is from the image to the emotion. In this sense, the mass of emotion is, as well as the amount of the emotion that has already been accumulated behind the image, the amount of the charge to maintain the freezing of the energy of the due emotion. The charge to keep pausing the image, before it proceeds to the emotion. The image, the emotion of which has no means of expression, is hiding among ordinary images.
Every emotional expression is the expression of a claim. In a repression, blocking the expression of the claim is egual to blocking the judgment. A parabola. Suppose a small child fell and skinned his knee. It bleeds and he starts to cry. Crying is the expression of the disagreeable judgment about the fall, the injury and the pain, and it claims the help of the parents. At that moment, if the parents say: “Don’t cry”, it means: “not to express your pain with exaggeration outside of you.” But the child with a strong repression is extremely serious, and it means the blocking of the judgment, such as: “Don’t think it painful, even in your head.” This does not mean the social wall between the Conscious and the external world, but the wall of repression between the Consciousness and the Unconscious. The healthy mental growth of children is the addition of verbal expressions to emotional expressions, and it is not the blocking of emotional expressions in the Conscious. It is a big mistake to consider the emotional expression of claims as a bad habit. It is necessary to understand the congenital tendency to the repression that the children of syndrome Gilles de la Tourette have.
In spite of its strength, the emotion in a catharsis is an expressive emotion of claim. The mass of emotion is a mass of claims. They are claims of denial, of desire and of survival, that have been kept without means of expression, which catharsis will provide them. The fist on the traumatic image is a conducting wire.
· Emotion is a bodily means of expression of judgments and neurosis is a bodily means of repression of disagreeable judgments.
· Disagreeable things are intuitively disagreeable, and disagreeable judgements are not done by cognition in the Conscious.
Asperger syndrome and tic disorder
The term “autism” means the graded scale on the coordinate axis from the zero of the state of good health to the severe state and does not represent a particular intensity. This axis is called “autism spectrum”. There are infinite varieties of symptoms and degrees of Asperger syndrome. Diagnosis of Asperger syndrome must be done as early as possible, so that the people around the child and the child himself know what Asperger syndrome is and avoid ignorance. Patients with Asperger syndrome are not patients of psychoanalysts. When the patient with Asperger syndrome has tic disorder, his/her tic movements are distinguished from rocking in the diagnosis. Children who have a tendency of Asperger syndrome accept without resistance what people say as it is and what people do to them as it is, therefore disagreeable judgments are likely to be repressed. Often they hate the body of other people, so family members should be careful. In Asperger syndrome, there is a high possibility that the repression of disagreeable judgments are done functionally, that the mass of emotion as the cause of neurosis is easily formed and abreaction does not take place naturally. The proportion of Asperger syndrome of men and women is 3 : 1 too. As the treatment of tic disorder, catharsis is required; during three months, once a week, for three seconds. In catharsis as the treatment of tic disorder for the patients with Asperger’s syndrome, the verbalization of emotional expressions is important. As Asperger’s syndrome is not a neurosis, after the healing of tic disorder by catharsis, the symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome will not be cured by catharsis. The intentionality of the Conscious is the concentration on objects of the Conscious and the elimination of other objects of the Conscious, i. e., the repression of other objects of the Conscious: the objects of intentionality of patients with Asperger syndrome can be words. The words that have been pronounced or read are objects of the Consciece, and the words that have not been pronounced or read will be excluded from the Consciece: they will be repressed as the content of a forgotten dream. It is not the repression of feelings, but the repression of non verbalized words. Including words in silent reading, it is the concentration of the intentionality on auditory objects in the Conscious and the exclusion of auditory objects from the Conscious. (ADHD is with visual objects.) Asperger syndrome is a kind of daltonism, so to speak, on expressions of the sentiments that have not been verbalized: people’s feelings and feeling of the patient him- or herself can be objects of the Conscious only in the verbalization. In fact, there may be a relationship between daltonism (colorblind) and Asperger syndrome, but no statistical data is available.
In the Kuriki method, the restriction (narrowing of area)of any kind of objects of the Conscious is called repression and the congenital tendency of the repression and the congenital bodily mode of repression are premises of the theory. The deficiency of bodily sensations in autism and the KV (bodily repression) in neurosis have a congenital relationship.
Explosion of anger in everyday life of the patient
By definition, the Super-ego takes position independently over the Ego and the Id in the Unconscious, and repression is a function of the Ego. However, at the same time, the patient must know that the Super-ego is, in fact, an evolved part of the Id, and the Super-ego is still something very libidial. The patient who has tic disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder is generally a very serious person, and the more his Super-ego is hypertrophied, the stronger the explosion is, when he gets really angry. He will miss an opportunity, if the explosion of anger only externally targets the imperfection of a thing or a person: it can not be cathartic. If he knows that the explosion of anger is an event in his mind and an attack of the Id against the Super-ego, it will be well cathartic. The patient, who is a bit Asperger, must, from time to time, intentionally do emotional catharsis and practice expressing the stupidity of the Super-ego through the emotional explosion. He must know that the obsessive acts, counting numbers, putting things symmetrically, etc., of obsessive-compulsive disorder are due to the hypertrophy of the Super-ego. The hypertrophied Super-ego has been produced by Libido, and it is very unhealthy as a transformed part of the Id. If the patient keeps the attitude of a disciplined good child toward himself in his head, he is a slave dominated by the hypertrophied Super-ego. Of course, the repression of Sigmund Freud is a function of Ego to protect himself which is sandwiched between the Id and the Super-ego in the Unconscious, but, apart from that, the author thinks also that tic disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder might be a morbid and libidinal mechanism of repression in the hypertrophied Superego. Regarding the Super-ego of Sigmund Freud, if you think that it is defined only the healthy and pure Super-ego, it is a mistake as understanding of disease. The Super-ego which does not conform to the definition of Super-ego, abnormal Super-ego, is problematic Super-ego in neurosis, pathological Super-ego. With schematic contradiction, it seems that it is formed of rigorous elements and libidinal elements. In psychoanalysis, there is no healthy Superego, and the pathological Superego always has many libidinal elements as transformed part of the Id, and it is “vulgar” Superego with libidinal contradiction inside. Tic disorder (concentration of the Conscious onto the mobility of a voluntary muscle) and obsessive compulsive disorder (concentration of the Conscience onto a thing) are compulsive mechanisms of repression. The compulsivity of tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder is the vulgarity of the libidinal Super-ego, and this vulgarity is always justified by the Super-ego itself. The Super-ego hides its own libidinal element, and pretends itself to be rigorous. One must be wary of the Super-ego. The Conscious of an Asperger person might be dominated by the authority and legitimacy of the hypertrophied Super-ego since childhood. For the patient, the object of anger is always a thing or a person, and he fails to notice that the Es attacks the pathological Super-ego in his head. A kind of mechanism of the Super-ego to avoid conscientization (awareness) of the trauma and to keep the disagreeable traumatic emotion in the Unconscious is the compulsive physical symptom of neurosis. Surely, the Super-ego is well robotic and rational, but its true nature is only a part of the elements of the Id: a part which has been formed in an antagonistic way. In the mind of the same quality, in the same mind, the Id and the Super-ego are antagonistic only between their roles. The hypertrophied mechanism of the Super-ego is emotional blocking mechanism for repression and it is the physical symptom of neurosis such as tic disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. The object of repression is the trauma, but an enormous mass of traumatic emotion will be formed by the mechanism of the excessive repression. The hypertrophy of the mechanism of the Super-ego and the hypertrophy of the mass of emotion are proportional, and the compulsivity of the physical symptom of the neurosis will be aggravated. As for the explosion of anger in everyday life, destroying things or showing aggressiveness is bad behavior, shameful behavior. However, when the patient is alone in his room, he does not need to be ashamed of the explosion of the Id against the Super-ego. If, in his head, he considers anger as a stupid state of mind, he is a slave of the hypertrophied Super-ego, a would-be holy person, one of the Asperger symptoms. Since the terms of psychoanalysis have meaning only in the treatment of neurosis, the word “healthy Super-ego” has no meaning. The pathological Super-ego is the state where the libidinal elements of the Super-ego are hidden.