[The psychological preparation of patients with a paroxysmal systolic tachyarrhythmia for helium-neon laser treatment].

The psychological structure was studied in 120 patients with paroxysmal disorders of the cardiac rhythm. Anxiety, obsessive-phobic, neurasthenic and ergopathic syndromes were singled out. It was established that psychological aspects of personality of the patients depended on the course of paroxysmal disorders of the rhythm and influence the number of arrhythmia triggering that often reduced the grade of medicosocial adaptation. Psychological preparation of these patients to laser treatment may be achieved by rational psychotherapy. Details of such psychotherapy are discussed.