著者

保坂 智子 斉藤 正巳

出版者

The Medical Society of Kansai Medical University

雑誌

関西医科大学雑誌 (ISSN:00228400)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, no.3, pp.446-452, 1960

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A comparative study has been made on personality structure of alcohol and heroin addicts by means of Rorschach test (revised edition of Waseda). For this purpose, ten pathological drinkers, ten heroin addicts and ten normal controls have been picked out of the in-patients and the employees, and studied in Keihan Sanatrium.<BR>The outline of results is as follows.<BR>1) As a rule, W percentage is high in the heroin addicts, of whom five have presented W-D mode of approach, while W-D is usual in the remaining two groups.<BR>2) It must be noted that four heroin addicts have showed FB<SUB>2</SUB> type of experience and three alcoholics have showed A<SUB>2</SUB> type.<BR>3) M response is more in alcoholics, less or sometimes lacking in heroin addicts than in normal controls. It is important and essential difference between these two addicts groups.<BR>4) It may be no wonder that colour saturation is more frequent in the addicts than in the control group.<BR>5) In heroin group, T, TF and FT responses are relatively much as compared with those in the other groups. It may represent the desire for tactual love in the addicted individuals to heroin.<BR>6) As to the content of responses, high H percentage in alcohol group may represent the craving for the human relation, while low H in heroin groups may represent the tendency to escape from it.<BR>From the above described results, it may concluded that the alcohol addiction is of neurotic nature and the heroin addicts are rather psychopathic. The present authors believe that this conclusion is of much use in the treatment of various addictions.