This elusive and complex topic concerns the consumption of items, the use of which depends on cultural values, economic factors, small and large group phenomena, drug effects, and intrapsychic (and probably intercerebral) determinants, as well as recurrent dimensions of human behavior, such as the search for both novelty and constancy, and the tasks of self-regulation and mastery of various states of pleasure and pain. (190 pp.)
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The Prescription of Treatment for Adults
The population of patients that come to see a psychiatrist is distributed on a normal curve ranging from high-expectant trust to a very low capacity for this readiness to be helped. Where high-expectant trust almost any technique will work and often the directive techniques are faster. Where low-expectant trust is present the opening steps require a diligent cultivation of the patient’s capacity to trust. (22 pp.)
Psychoses Associated with Drug Use
This chapter deals with the genesis of psychotic behavior in which intake of a pharmacologic compound plays a significant role. As used here, psychosis refers to an experience of self and external world, which, for a significantly prolonged period, is at marked variance with generally accepted notions of reality and which is not under individual control. (45 pp.)
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