page_title: Victor Skumin
section_title: Skumin mind control method
hierarchical_section_title: Victor Skumin / Skumin mind control method
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hagebutten am Strauch von Uwe H. Friese aus Bremerhaven 2002 fotografiert English: Rose hips on a shrub, picture taken by Uwe H. Friese from Bremerhaven in 2002
context_page_description: Victor Andreevich Skumin is a Russian psychologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, medical doctor and writer.
context_section_description: In 1979, Skumin created a special modification of mind control method for psychological rehabilitation of patients. This method is based on autogenic training. Autogenic training is a relaxation technique developed by the psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz. He emphasized parallels to techniques in yoga and meditation. It is a method for influencing one's autonomic nervous system. The technique involves the daily practice of sessions that last around 15 minutes, usually in the morning, at lunch time, and in the evening. During each session, the practitioner will repeat a set of visualisations that induce a state of relaxation. Each session can be practiced in a position chosen amongst a set of recommended postures.
  The technique of the Skumin mind control method (Russian: "Психотре́нинг по Ску́мину") involves the use of two standard postures: sitting meditation and lying down meditation. This method of psychotraining includes five psychological exercises: the first is "the relaxation", the second one is "the warming", the third one is "the zero gravity", the fourth one is "the target autosuggestion", and the fifth exercise is "the psychological activation". Each session contain explanation of the theory and practice of each new exercise as it is reached. The therapeutic effect is achieved by the neutralization of traumatic emotional experiences and the progressive reorganization of the psychic structures to include previously unacceptable mental contents, too. This method of psychotherapy has found application in medical practice, in particular in the treatment of phobias, headaches, etc.
caption: Rose hips
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