P0201 - An alternative approach to treatment of depression

Abstract

Objective:

To demonstrate through 3 classic case examples that depression can be predictably overcome through ‘Breakthrough Intimacy’ - closeness between committed couples far greater than their previous maximum experience, eliminating depression by making it unnecessary.

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 help the couple to achieve closeness far greater than their previous maximum level, overcoming waves of symptom spikes (such as depression) 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 depression) over the last 20 years, 48% of patients reached a level of adjustment beyond their previous maximum level. Among them, 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 according to their own daily subjective self-rating, far beyond symptom elimination.

Conclusion:

Depression 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 over the last 20 years support an alternative approach in treatment of depressive disorder.