Application of Subsensory Influence Technology for Psychocorrectional Work Among Patients with Depressive Disorders

doi:10.26565/2410-1249-2025-23-03

Liudmyla Shestopalova The state institution "P.V. Voloshyn Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine", Kharkiv, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6295-0667
Volodymir Lutsyk The state institution "P.V. Voloshyn Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine", Kharkiv, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0611-3367
Iryna Voitenko The state institution "P.V. Voloshyn Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine", Kharkiv, Ukraine
Yaroslava Nudnova The state institution "P.V. Voloshyn Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine", Kharkiv, Ukraine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26565/2410-1249-2025-23-03

Keywords: perceptual-informational processes, psychocorrection, subsensory influence, perception, personality, psychological clusters, depressive disorders

Abstract

The aim of the study was to test and assess the effectiveness of the method of complex visual-perceptive subsensory psychocorrectional influence for conducting psychocorrectional work with patients with depressive disorders. We have created a special method of visual-perceptive subsensory psychocorrectional influence, which is based on the use of transient subsensory visual stimuli. 52 patients with various clinical forms of depressive disorders (F31.3; F32.0; F32.1; F33.0; F33.1; F33.11; F34.1; F43.1; F43.2) were examined, the main group consisted of 28 patients, the comparison group consisted of 24 patients. Patients of the main group received, along with treatment and rehabilitation according to clinical protocols and guidelines approved by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, sessions of complex subsensory influence, in patients of the comparison group subsensory stimulation was not performed. To assess the effectiveness of subsensory psychocorrectional influence, a psychodiagnostic examination was carried out before the start of psychocorrection and after its completion. The following psychodiagnostic methods were used: the “Self-Esteem” method, the Resilience Scale, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), “Tolerance for Uncertainty”, the Zimbardo Time Perspective Questionnaire. Patients who underwent subsensory psychocorrectional influence showed a significant increase in resilience, a more pronounced reduction in depressive and anxiety symptoms, a decrease in fatalistic attitude towards the present; in addition, the perception of one’s own future improved. Thus, the use of complex subsensory psychocorrection in patients with depressive disorders contributes to a reliable reduction of symptoms of four main psychological clusters as basic target objects for conducting psychocorrection work, namely: reduction of depressive and anxiety symptoms (cluster "Emotional disorders"); increase in the level of resilience (cluster "Masadaptive-behavioral changes"); harmonization of self-esteem (cluster "Perception of the world and self-image"); reduction of fatalistic attitude towards the present. The perception of one's future also improves (cluster "Chronoperception").

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Kozhina, G.M. & Zelenska, K.O. (2023). Clinical phenomenology of stress-associated disorders in conditions of full-scale invasion. Ukrainian Bulletin of Psychoneurology, Vol. 31, Issue 1(114), 5-37. doi: https://doi.org/10.36927/2079-0325-V31-is1-2023-5

Linsky, I.V., Pidkorytov, V.S., Kuzminov, V.N., Denysenko, M.M. et al. (2025). Dynamics of post-stress symptoms in patients with stress-associated disorders during standard treatment. Ukrainian Bulletin of Psychoneurology, Vol. 33, Issue 1 (122). 4-12. doi: https://doi.org/10.36927/2079-0325-1.

Shestopalova, L.F. & Lutsyk, V.L. (2021). Threshold and semantic characteristics of transient visual-perceptual processes in patients with affective disorders. Psychiatry, Narcology and Medical Psychology, Vol.16. P. 66-72. doi: https://doi.org/10.26565/2312-5675-2021-16-08

Shestopalova, L.F. & Lutsyk, V.L. (2022). Research on the effects of subsensory influence on the system of associations in patients with depressive disorders. Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy, 18, 16-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.26565/2410-1249-2022-18-02

Shestopalova, L.F. & Lutsyk, V.L. (2020). Development and testing of experimental psychological methods for the study of unconscious visual-perceptual processes. Psychological counseling and psychotherapy, Vol.14, 50-56. doi: https://doi.org/10.26565/2410-1249-2020-14-04

Certificate of copyright registration for work No. 134992 “Methodology of complex visual-perceptual subsensory psychocorrectional influence”. (2025). Shestopalova, L.F., Lutsyk, V.L., Voitenko, I.V., applied 10.02.2025, published 9.04.2025

Shestopalova, L.F., Lutsyk, V.L. & Voitenko, I.V. (2024). Psychological clusters as targets of psychocorrectional work in patients with depressive disorders. Grail of Science, 45. 600-605. doi: https://doi.org/10.36074/grail-of-science.01.11.2024.085

Burlachuk, L.F. (2007). Dictionary-reference book on psychodiagnostics. 3 ed. St. Petersburg. Peter.

Smith, B. A., Dalen, J., Wiggins, K. T., Tooley, E., Christopher, P. J., & Bernard, J. F. (2008). The brief resilience scale: Assessing the ability to bounce back. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 15(3), 194-200. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1070550080222297

Zigmond, A.S. & Snaith, R.P. (1983). The hospital anxiety and depression scale. Acta Psych. Scandinav, 67(6), 361-370

Budner, S. (1962). Intolerance of ambiguity as a personality variable. Journal of Personality, 30, 29-50.

Zimbardo, P. G. & Boyd, J. N. (1999). Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. Journal of personality and social psychology, Vol. 77, №6, 1271-1288.