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;
Summary
The Kuriki method in outline.
The author needed 50 sections to describe how to heal tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. These 50 sections are roughly the amount and the order of ideas on which a patient will make reflections to clearly understand the theory of this method.
While the Kuriki method is a theory to cure tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, the majority of its description is on tic disorder: the non-organic side of tic disorder and the physical side of obsessive-compulsive disorder have been emphasized. For the understanding of the similarity of tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder as an identical structure, the treatment too should be described at the same time as the same treatment for these diseases.
After diagnosis, in a treatment of tic disorder, the doctor should be completely indifferent to the tic movements of the patient. A tic movement is a decoy which makes the mechanism of bodily repression and the doctor should not be caught in the trap. The doctor must close their eyes also to OCD symptoms, which have no meaning, nothing else but the absurdity, which is indispensable to a compulsive symptom. The cause of neurosis (the lower layer of neurosis) is very simple, and to preserve it, various symptoms appear randomly as the upper layer of neurosis. A patient may have a shoulder tic, obsession of hand washing, onychophagia, hoarding, etc., as categorization of symptoms, however all these symptoms are totally meaningless, and they are not subjects of investigation. Categorization des symptoms is ignorance about neurosis. It is like categorize the shape of milk saying milk in a bottle is in the shape of this bottle.
investigation
To categorize
A tic movement is 100% a voluntary movement.
The tic movements are the most conscious of all the voluntary movements, as the patient has to do a tic movement each time unwillingly and each time he is even conscious of the location of the muscle of this movement. Breathing is a voluntary movement, but very automatic and very unconscious. Not like dolphins, our breathing continues during sleep, but tic movements are extremely voluntary and conscious, and tic movements are impossible during sleep. The symptom of tic disorder is a kind of compulsive physical sensation which forces the Conscious absolutely to do a voluntary movement. It is a rudimentary mistake to consider the tic movements as involuntary movements. There exist doctors who do not know that tic movements are voluntary movements and doctors who do not even know the definitions of healthy voluntary movement and healthy involuntary movement. If that is the case, it will be bad luck for the patient.
The same treatment is effective for tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder: that is emotional catharsis with an explosion of three seconds, once a week. Emotional catharsis is done little by little, during at least three months. The discovery of the traumatic image is only the preparation necessary for the treatment: the healing is done by weekly emotional explosions. In the autistic spectrum, it is a question of the hermeticity of the emotional repression between the Conscious and the Unconscious. Due to the specific sensations and the emotional structure of Asperger, the Kuriki method considers the organic predisposition of tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder as an element of autism spectrum: i.e., in the theory of the Kuriki method, Tourette’s syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder are considered as symptoms of neurosis of the persons with autism spectrum disorder. While the compulsivity of tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder can be eliminated by explosions of emotional catharsis, autism spectrum is a congenital area, which is not an object of treatment. On the contrary, especially being Asperger can often be honorable as persons who create all human culture. For a diagnosis of tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, it should be known if, in the close relatives, there is someone who has a learning disability or someone who has extreme easiness at school.
As the treatment of tic disorder and OCD consists of understanding and inference on the structure of the disease and explosions of emotional catharsis of three seconds once a week, it will be a long-term treatment. Although the author wrote three months as the duration of treatment, slowness of treatment can ensure safety as avoiding temporary feeling of anxiety.
For a tic disorder, it is not suddenly after three months the disagreeable sensation of the « compulsive intramuscular sensation » of tic disorder and the Absolute Compulsion to do the tic movement disappear, but already the day when the understanding of the patient about this method, i.e., the understanding of the patient about the structure of tic disorder starts to go in the right direction and the day of the first explosion of emotional catharsis, his symptoms of tic disorder start to progressively disappear. Apart from the question of individual differences between patients, suppose that the patient discovers the vague direction of search for the traumatic image two weeks after the explanation by the psychoanalyst about « compulsive intramuscular sensation » of tic disorder as a mechanism of suppression for physical discomfort (muscular fatigue of the legs, pain of the stomach, etc., etc.), it can be counted three months with ten weekly sessions of three seconds explosion as emotional catharsis.
If the understanding of the patient about this method is in the good direction, the patient will know the beginning of the disappearance of the symptoms of tic disorder immediately after the first session of emotional catharsis. Being happy with this result, the patient wants to make a big explosion of emotional catharsis, therefore, in order to avoid transient anxiety, the role of brake of the psychoanalyst is indispensable.
The psychoanalyst explains to the patient the distinction between the virtual personage of the traumatic image in childish illusion and the real person, since, if the patient does not make enough affective reflection, «the bad person» of the infantile traumatic image and the actual person can be superficially confused. The psychoanalyst teaches the patient that treatment for neurosis should be done with joy. The cause of neurosis is not the content of the trauma, but the individual tendency to the formation of the mass of emotion, the narrowness of threshold for emotional expression in the Conscious and the volume of the hypertrophied mass of emotion. The patient should not take his revenge on «the bad person» of the traumatic image in the real world by resorting to violence. In order to avoid a stupid crime of revenge committed by the patient who confuses his very disagreeable emotion and the real world at the time of the discovery of the traumatic image, the mechanism of neurosis must be objectified by the patient’s intelligence, and that is essential as a task of the psychoanalyst.
1. The lower layer of neurosis
Even the things that are normally considered very trivial in everyday life can be sufficiently traumatic for a child who has a little bit of Asperger element. Libidinal trauma is not necessarily an abuse that is sexual, criminal, dramatic, etc. For example, there are children who do not like at all that an adult person touches them on the head. For certain children, the sensation of the genitals inside underwear can be an object of repression. Children with Tourette’s syndrome have congenitally strong repression and often the judgement of an intuitively very disagreeable object at the libidinal level is not expressed in the Conscious. The libidinal level is, in the structure of neurosis, the intersection of the Unconscious and the body; the part where the lower layer and the upper layer of neurosis join. The image that hides the very disagreeable emotion is a traumatic image and will remain in the memory among ordinary images. Whatever it is, something repeated every day, of which disagreeable libidinal emotion is repressed, accumulated and hypertrophied in a huge mass of emotion, will be the trauma for the patient.
Behavior of Asperger
· Say a pun that has come to mind.
· Prefer to be alone.
. Give a special name to his favorite personages and animals.
· Everyday, wear the same clothes, eat the same foods.
· For an interesting thing, focusing on work, reach the pro level.
etc.
Asperger Elements as congenital predisposition to tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder
· Having specific bodily sensation, (ASMR, etc.).
· Disagreeable judgments are not easily emotionally expressed in the Conscious as disagreeable emotion.
etc.
Just as there is the symptomatic treatment of diet to the innate predisposition to obesity, the symptomatic treatment of elimination of compulsivity by weekly explosions of emotional catharsis can be effective for Asperger’s innate predisposition to tic disorder and to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The lower layer of neurosis
For a tic disorder or an obsessive-compulsive disorder, the lower layer is the same: i.e., in order to preserve the lower layer, the Unconscious uses symptoms (the upper layer, KV) such as tic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc. The Unconscious gives compulsivity to the KV. In the Kuriki method, the intentional explosion of emotional catharsis is the treatment of the lower layer: all the treatment of tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder is the treatment of the lower layer, and the word “treatment of the upper layer” would not make any sense. After the treatment of the lower layer (mass of emotion), the upper layer (symptoms of tic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc.) will not need to appear in the Conscious, because there will be nothing to hide from the eyes of the Conscious. Once diagnosed, for the treatment of a tic disorder and an obsessive-compulsive disorder, the doctor should be totally indifferent to the symptoms of the patient: everything meaningless, everything absurd can become a symptom of neurosis. Freudian research on the significance of the patient’s act is useless. The treatment is not the discovery of the traumatic image, but explosions of the emotion hidden behind the traumatic image, once a week, only three seconds. Gradual reduction of the quantity of the mass of emotion with emotional catharsis, which is done every week on the same traumatic image.
The Kuriki method is not a treatment for depression. When an explosion of emotional catharsis has been too strong, it is possible to have transient feeling of anxiety: a neurotic patient with depression requires sufficient precautions.
The upper layer of neurosis
The upper layer, i.e., the symptoms of each patient are arbitrarily and randomly determined by the Unconscious, regardless of the content of the trauma in the lower layer. The search for the traumatic image of a patient should not refer to his neurotic symptoms.
KV (körperliche Verdrängung, bodily repression)
The combination of a specific physical sensation and a movement, the combination of a specific physical sensation and an act, etc. The KV is always bodily and it is a mechanism of repression that diverts the intentionality of the Conscious from a disagreeable physical sensation. Disagreeable indefinite bodily sensations (tired legs, pain in the lower back, cold temperature in winter, etc.) and primitive bodily sensations (genitals, anus, etc.) will be repressed.
The upper layer of tic disorder
The tic movement is a 100% voluntary movement, which is forced by Absolute Compulsion in order to delete the amplification of the disagreeable bodily sensation in a muscle with the compulsion of muscular immobility. This sensation is «the compulsive physical sensation» of tic.
The upper layer of obsessive compulsive disorder
The « compulsive physical sensation » of OCD is a kind of bodily sensation. The compulsion of an act amplifies itself in the Conscious.
In the framework of Absolute Compulsion, symptoms of neurosis are products of the pathological structure which has weird elements which are not found in a healthy structure. The pathological structure might be intelligible only to a small number of intelligent persons who understand logically these bizarre descriptions. Otherwise, you read these 50 sections and when you understand even one section, you will clearly understand the whole idea of this method. The difficulty in reading and in understanding is a personal problem of the reader. Since there is unconscious resistance, the Kuriki method will be effective for the patients who do not want to read this method.
Panic disorder
Panic disorder is the amplification of fear of “the body that has fear” that changes the body condition with adrenaline. While the « compulsive intramuscular sensation » of tic disorder (musclular sensation of immobility) and «the compulsive physical sensation» of TOC (cutaneous sensation, etc.) are abnormal sensation of Asperger, panic disorder occurs with real effects of adrenaline.
Cure for panic disorder, phobia, without medication
Rationalization
In the Kuriki method, the pathological unconscious function of selecting randomly, like a roulette, symptoms of neurosis is called “rationalization”. For tic disorder, as a movement to verify the mobility of a muscle or a joint, for obsessive-compulsive disorder, as an act of a good child, for coprolalie, as a childish word that children say without malice, etc., the hysterical movement or act is always accompanied with a false motive that justifies it. A symptom will be selected according to the facility of random justification, so it is the possibility of rationalization that randomly determines the symptom of a patient. A movement or an act which has easily a random false motive will be the symptom. This rationalization is one of the main ideas of the Kuriki method, which is a theory of the structure of tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. This is not the same thing as the rationalization in Freudian theory: “act” and “rationalization of motive” are in reverse order. The movements of tic disorder and the acts of obsessive-compulsive disorder are movements and acts that are extremely conscious. The conscious movements and the conscious acts are always accompanied by a motive. For example, a false motive such as “because cutting fingernails is one of the good acts of a good child and because there is no nail clipper here,” justifies to bite nails, and onychophagia (disorder of habit and impulse) will be selected as a compulsive act in the Unconscious of the patient. The false motive can be; “Because biting is faster than a nail clipper”, etc. When a false motive of onychophagia is more easily justifiable than trichotillomania with a false motive such as “because there are lots of hair”, onychophagia will be selected by the Unconscious as a compulsive act of the patient. For Freudian rationalization, a false motive appears in the Conscious as a pretext after the unconscious act which represents the content of the trauma, in contrast to this, for the rationalization in the Kuriki method, the facility of the justification as a false motive precedes the selection the unconscious act. «Because there is no nail clipper here.»; as this false motive is easily possible, the hysterical Unconscious chooses easily onychophagia as a symptom. the compulsive act or the manner of the tic movement, which is randomly selected by rationalization, has no relation to the content of the trauma of the patient. The true motive of a symptom is to divert the intentionality of the Conscious from a disagreeable thing (disagreeable physical sensations, sexual organs, traumatic image), and that is the repression. All voluntary movements can randomly be a tic movement, and the classification of tic movements represents a lack of understanding on tic disorder. None of the tic movements of a patient has meaning in the diagnosis. Similarly, all infantile acts can be randomly an act of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the classification of acts is meaningless and useless.
Rationalization is one of the attributes of neurosis, and it is not the cause of the compulsivity.
Non-regressive infantilization
In Freudian theory, regression is an element of the structure the symptoms of neurosis, but in the Kuriki method, infantilization is considered as a behavior of the conscious manifestation of Libido to pass the censorship of the Super-ego by a trick. The Super-ego allows the Libido to manifest itself in the Conscious in a guise of infantilization. Infantilization is healthy complicity between the Libido of a child under five years and the Super-ego. There is healthy pleasure accompanied by feeling of guilt. Infantilization must be justified, otherwise it would be the extinction of the human race. In rationalization, an infantile false motive will be easily justified. The infantile words of coprolalia are words of a “bad mischievous child”, and the act of hand washing of obsessive-compulsive disorder is an act of a “good clean child”, etc. As a justified act must be also an absurd act, which interferes with the intentionality of the Conscious, infantilization is appropriate to the rationalization in neurosis.
Absurdity
A childish act naturally has absurdity, and in addition, absurdity makes the intentionality of the Conscious point the object in the Conscious of the patient. Besides the absurd acts of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the necessity of speed of a tic movement, the necessity of loudness of coprolalie, the necessity of cracking sound of an articulation tic, etc., the absurd necessity interferes in the reason of the Conscious of the patient, and thus, a symptom of neurosis will be a means of repression.
The upper layer represses the lower layer; the double structure of the neurotic repression.
Inside the upper layer, the symptoms repress disagreeable bodily sensations (foot fatigue, cold winter temperature, low back pain, etc.) or primitive bodily sensations (genitals, anus, etc.). The upper layer is a mechanism of bodily repression, and in the theory of the Kuriki method, each one of the diseases of neurosis is generally considered as a KV (bodily repression) which has compulsivity. The KV can be, for example, the upper layer of a shoulder tic or the upper layer of an obsessive-compulsive disorder of hand-washing, etc. The KV can have more than one neurotic disease. A patient congenitally has his KV. Often people with Asperger may have the sensory structure of KV, which can be the congenital predisposition to physical symptoms of neurosis. The presence of the upper layer, i.e., the presence of a disease, represses the presence of the lower layer (the mass of traumatic emotion). The presence of the mass of emotion gives the compulsivity to the KV. The Unconscious protects the Conscious as repressing the traumatic emotion. The Absolute Compulsion is the big unconscious structure of neurosis. It frames the KV (i.e., the specific combination of the Conscious and the body) when the patient’s congenital KV has compulsivity. The Absolute Compulsion will disappear at the same time as the emotional catharsis will eliminate the compulsiveness of the KV.
The Unconscious is directly and largely in contact with the body. Among the physical elements of the Unconscious, the conservation mechanism of frozen disagreeable emotion will be etiologically inferred neurosis. The patient cannot easily understand that Absolute Compulsion by the Unconscious manifestes itself always as a kind of physical compulsion in the Conscious.
The pathological energy that produces symptoms of neurosis is not the energy of the repressed emotion, but the force of the repression function. The symptom of neurosis is the mechanism of repression. The force of the compulsion is the force of the repression, i.e., the necessity of the repression. Understanding about the corporeality of Absolute Compulsion is one of the clinical bases of the treatment of neurosis.
Cure for tic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder;
(1) Frequent awareness of disagreeable bodily sensations, which are repressed by the « compulsive intramuscular sensation » of tic disorder and the « compulsive physical sensation » of OCD. The image of the trauma will be found automatically in the following weeks.
(2) The emotional catharsis will provide, in the Conscious, a means of expression to the unexpressed traumatic emotion. Big explosions of catharsis are prohibited. A treatment takes three months.
The expected therapeutic result is that the KV of the patient loses its compulsiveness.