Inflectional therapy for mental depression and anxiety

• US 20030208243A1
• Filed: 05/01/2002
• Published: 11/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daniel L. Cobble
• Original Assignee: Daniel L. Cobble
• Inventors: Cobble, Daniel L.
• Application Number:
  US10/136,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20030208243A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 607/45
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0027 by the hearing sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 21/00 Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3375 Acoustical, e.g. ultrasonic, measuring means

Abstract

A therapeutic process, called inflectional therapy, is essentially a single-person process for diminishing the mental ailments of depression and anxiety. As the sufferer, being said single person, experiences such an ailment, [she]/he commences to record his thoughts and feelings by verbal expression onto a recording medium, such as an audio tape recorder. This is called a session, and the ensuing recording is called a recorded session. Typically, multiple sessions comprise adequate therapy for depression, but a single session usually diminishes a bout of anxiety. In circumstances where the sufferer does not have ready access to his recorder at the time of the ailment, he may commence recording his thoughts and feelings of the “prior” ailment when he eventually has access. Also, the sufferer may include positive, verbal expressions of encouragement during a session. A person may even record those thoughts and feelings when he is not undergoing a current ailment, such as inflecting upon happiness and other positive thoughts, or aspects of a personality disorder. Then, as desired, he listens to the recorded sessions for examining his ailment from the objective, recorded format, for the self-observation that leads to self-objectivity. But more significant, therapeutic value lies in the act(s) of expressing one'"'"'s thoughts and feelings within the session(s) through the mental “focal point” of the recording medium.—For these matters, inflectional therapy may be utilized in institutional environments, such as hospitals, businesses, the military, etc., to treat patients, and to calm personnel during situations of conflict.

Claims

1. A therapeutic process, called inflectional therapy, for diminishing the mental ailments of depression and anxiety;

and said process comprising a session; and

said session consist of the sufferer of a ailment of said ailments recording [her]/his thoughts and feelings of said ailment by verbal expression onto a recording medium during the actual ailment and thus producing a recorded session of said session;

a choice of recording mediums for said session includes audio tape recording, video recording with audio recording, audio recording by electronic digitalization, and recording by writing; and

over the time of said sufferer suffering successive bouts of said ailment multiple sessions are conducted with ensuing multiple recorded sessions; and

said process comprising said sufferer listening to a recorded session as needed for examining his thoughts and feelings; and

said process having the therapeutic value of said sufferer expressing his thoughts and feelings in a session; and

said process having the resulting therapeutic value of said sufferer externally examining his thoughts and feelings by listening to a recorded session; and

an ensuing recorded session being personal of said sufferer by having recorded the details of private information of said sufferer'"'"'s thoughts and feelings.

2. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

said process comprising said sufferer listening to a single recorded session for examining the sufferer'"'"'s thoughts and feelings.

3. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

upon the time of said ailment that said sufferer does not have immediate access to said recording medium said sufferer records his thoughts and feelings at a later, available opportunity.

4. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

said sufferer will express positive and encouraging thoughts in a session.

5. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

a professional practitioner, including but not limited to a psychologist and a therapist, assist said sufferer in how to conduct a session.

6. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

a professional practitioner, including but not limited to a psychologist and a therapist, conducts said therapeutic process in an institutional environment.

7. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

a professional practitioner, including but not limited to a psychologist and a therapist, assists a sufferer in formulating encouragingly verbal messages for said sufferer to conduct a session.

8. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

a professional practitioner, including but not limited to a psychologist and a therapist, assists a sufferer in formulating verbally therapeutic messages for said sufferer to conduct a session.

9. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

said process is taught within a venue;

said venue includes, but not limited to;

the respective venues of lecture appearances, seminars, workshops, colleges and schools, businesses, work place environments, military institutions, community workshops, governmental institutions, health-care institutions, mental health institutions, prisons, and reformatories.

10. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

a description of said process is broadcasted by a broadcast station; and

said station includes, but not limited to, respective television stations, radio stations, and computer-based broadcasts.

11. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

a description of said process is published in a publication; and

said publication includes, but not limited to;

respective text publications and computer-based publications.

12. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

said process is conducted in an institution; and

said institution includes, but not limited to, respective lecture appearances, seminars, workshops, colleges and schools, businesses, churches, work place environments, military establishments, community workshops, governmental establishments, health-care establishments, mental health establishments, prisons, and reformatories.

13. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

said recording medium having a recording unit; and

a choice of recording units being, but not limited to, an audio cassette tape, a writable digitized disc, and a computerized recording program; and

upon said recording unit not being fully recorded after completing a recorded session, then said sufferer records a successive session onto said recording unit.

14. The therapeutic process of claim 13 including further:

said sufferer alternates multiple recording units between said sessions and the listening of said recorded sessions; and

said sufferer commences to record new sessions over prior recorded sessions on an existing recording unit after another recording unit has been completed with the most recent recorded session of said sufferer.

15. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

said recording medium having a recording unit; and

a choice of recording units being, but not limited to, an audio cassette tape, a writable digitized disc, and a computerized recording program; and

said sufferer plays respective peripheral sounds including, but not limited to, music and ocean waves playing in the background of said session so as to be recorded onto said recording unit of an ensuing recorded session.

16. The therapeutic process of claim 1 including further:

while recording a session, point in time information is recorded onto the respective recorded session of when said session is recorded;

a choice of data for said information includes a day of week, a calendar date, and a time of day.

17. A therapeutic process, called inflectional therapy, for exposing a person'"'"'s thoughts and feelings to [herself]/himself, and said process comprising a session;

and said session consist of the same person recording [her]/his thoughts and feelings by verbal expression onto a recording medium and thus producing a recorded session of said session;

a choice of recording mediums for said session include audio tape recording, video recording with audio recording, audio recording by electronic digitalization, and recording by writing; and

said person listening to said session as desired for examining his thoughts and feelings;

said process having the therapeutic value of said person expressing his thoughts and feelings in a session; and

said process having the resulting therapeutic value of said person externally examining his thoughts and feelings by listening to a recorded session; and

the recorded session being personal of said person by having recorded the details of private information of said person '"'"'s thoughts and feelings.

18. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

and said process comprising multiple sessions with respectively multiple recorded sessions, and said person listening to any of said multiple sessions as desired for examining his thoughts and feelings.

19. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

said person conducting multiple sessions.

20. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

said person expresses positive and encouraging thoughts in said session.

21. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

upon the circumstance that said person does not have access to said recording medium, then said sufferer conducts a later session of his thoughts and feelings at a time when he is available for said recording medium.

22. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

a professional practitioner, including but not limited to a psychologist and a therapist, assists said person in how to conduct a session.

23. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

a professional practitioner, including but not limited to a psychologist and a therapist, conducts said therapeutic process in an institutional environment.

24. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

a professional practitioner, including but not limited to a psychologist and a therapist, assists a person in formulating encouragingly verbal messages for said person to conduct a session.

25. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

a professional practitioner, including but not limited to a psychologist and a therapist, assists a person in formulating verbally therapeutic messages for said person to conduct in a sessions.

26. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

said process is taught within a particular venue;

said venue includes, but not limited to, the respective venues of lecture appearances, seminars, workshops, colleges and schools, businesses, work place environments, military institutions, community workshops, governmental institutions, health-care institutions, mental health institutions, prisons, and reformatories.

27. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

a description of said process is broadcasted by a broadcast station; and

said station includes, but not limited to, respective television stations, radio stations, and computer-based broadcasts.

29. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

a description of said process is published in a publication; and

said publication includes, but not limited to, respective text publications and computer-based publications.

30. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

said process is conducted within an institution; and

said institution includes, but not limited to, respective lecture appearances, seminars, workshops, colleges and schools, churches, businesses, churches, work place environments, military establishments, community workshops, governmental establishments, health-care establishments, mental health establishments, prisons, and reformatories.

31. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

said recording medium having a recording unit; and

a choice of recording units being, but not limited to, an audio cassette tape, a writable digitized disc, and a computerized recording program; and

upon said recording unit not being fully recorded after completing a session, then said person records a successive session onto said recording unit.

32. The therapeutic process of claim 31 including further:

said person alternates multiple recording units between said sessions and the listening of said recorded sessions;

said person commences to record new sessions over prior recorded sessions on an existing recording unit after another recording unit has been completed with the most recent recorded sessions of said person.

33. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

said recording medium having a recording unit; and

a choice of recording units being, but not limited to, an audio cassette tape, a writable digitized disc, and a computerized recording program; and

said sufferer plays respective peripheral sounds including, but not limited to, music and ocean waves, for playing in the background of said session so as to be recorded onto said recording unit of the ensuing said recorded session.

34. The therapeutic process of claim 17 including further:

while recording a session, point in time information is recorded onto the respective recorded session as to when said session is recorded;

a choice of data for said information includes a day of week, a calendar date, and a time of day.

35. A therapeutic process, called inflectional therapy, for diminishing the mental ailments of depression and anxiety within an institution, and said process comprising a session;

and said session consist of a sufferer of a ailment of said ailments recording [her]/his thoughts and feelings of said ailment by verbal expression onto a recording medium during the actual ailment and thus producing a recorded session of said session;

a choice of recording mediums for said session includes audio tape recording, video recording with audio recording, audio recording by electronic digitalization, and recording by writing; and

an administrator of said institution providing said sufferer with a private area for conducting said session; and

said process including another session as needed by said sufferer; and

said sufferer listening to said recorded session as needed for examining his thoughts and feelings; and

said process having the therapeutic value of said sufferer expressing his thoughts and feelings in a session; and

said process having the resulting therapeutic value of said sufferer externally examining his thoughts and feelings by listening to a recorded session; and

the recorded session being personal of said sufferer by having recorded the details of private information of said sufferer'"'"'s thoughts and feelings.

36. The therapeutic process of claim 35 including further:

said institution providing a specified time period for conducting said session.

37. The therapeutic process of claim 35 including further:

said recorded session being retained by said sufferer.

38. The therapeutic process of claim 35 including further:

said process is taught within a particular venue;

said venue includes, but not limited to, the respective venues of lecture appearances, seminars, workshops, colleges and schools,, church, businesses, work place environments, military institutions, community workshops, governmental institutions, health-care institutions, mental health institutions, prisons, and reformatories.

39. The therapeutic process of claim 35 including further:

a description of said process is broadcasted by a broadcast station; and

said station includes, but not limited to, respective television stations, radio stations, and computer-based broadcasts.

40. The therapeutic process of claim 35 including further:

a description of said process is published in a publication; and

said publication includes, but not limited to, respective text publications and computer-based publications.

41. The therapeutic process of claim 35 including further:

said process is conducted within an institution; and

said institution includes, but not limited to, respective lecture appearances, seminars, workshops, colleges and schools, churches, businesses, churches, work place environments, military establishments, community workshops, governmental establishments, health-care establishments, mental health establishments, prisons, and reformatories.

42. The therapeutic process of claim 35 including further:

an agent of said institution, including but not limited to a psychologist and a therapist, assist said sufferer in how to conduct a session.

43. The therapeutic process of claim 35 including further:

while recording a session, point in time information is recorded onto the respective recorded session as to when said session is recorded;

a choice of data for said information includes a day of week, a calendar date, and a time of day.