P0186 - An alternative approach to treatment of panic disorders

Abstract

Objective:

To demonstrate through 2 classic case examples that panic disorders can be predictably overcome through ‘Breakthrough Intimacy’ - closeness between committed couples far greater than their previous maximum level.

Method:

Lifetrack therapy works with couples (the patient and his/her partner in life) bringing them far closer than ever before, guided by their own daily self-rating on 41 parameters that allow accurate graphic tracking via Internet of subtle changes in their personalities during each therapy session. Working in three-way teamwork, the therapist actively helps the couple to achieve closeness far greater than their previous maximum level, overcoming waves of symptom spikes (such as panic attacks) until they disappear by exhaustion, as the couples undergo personality transformation.

Results:

Of the 1,170 patients treated (all of them showing varying degree of anxiety) over the last 20 years, 48% of patients reached a level of adjustment beyond their previous maximum level. 31% reached a level more than twice, 24% reached more than three times, 20% reached more than four times, 16% reached more than five times, and 7.6% reached more than ten times their previous maximum level of adjustment far beyond symptom elimination, according to their own daily subjective self-rating.

Conclusion:

Panic disorders may be better understood and treated as the consequence of one's personality which can be transformed through ‘Breakthrough Intimacy.’ The results of this study prove that traditional ‘disease’ concept of panic disorders must be overcome to substantially improve our profession's therapeutic productivity with panic and anxiety disorders.