Abstract
We have introduced the therapeutic key word “bad myself” into the treatment of ahalitosis patient (olfactory bromidrosiphobia).
A 23-year-old female claimed to have suffered from halitosis for ten years. She was convinced that she bothered others with her halitosis, because she was avoided by them in conversation. However we could not recognize halitosis or any likely organic cause.
So we asked her, “Is there bad your threatening you that your halitosis is offending others?”. She affirmed it, and agreed to write a “description of impressions”. Then we had interviews once a week, and made brief comments on her reports pointing out that she could adjust herself to personal relations if only she never listen to her “bad myself”. Step by step, she became able to conquer her “bad myself” and enlarged her radius of action.
It can be concluded that this therapeutic key word “bad myself” helped her take an objective view of her conditions, and the confirmation of her experience through her “description of impressions” may also have been effective in treatment.
