The Psychedelics: Love or Hostility Potion?
- 1 June 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 24 (3) , 843-846
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1969.24.3.843
Abstract
30 heavy psychedelic users were compared with 30 matched controls using the Rosenzweig and Comrey tests. The drug-dependent group demonstrated aberrant personality traits only with respect to increased Hostility. It appears that this propensity is unrelated to degree of drug dependency and may reflect a predisposing state. People who have difficulty handling their aggressive feelings may tend to become heavy drug users. How this hostility is expressed does appear to change with degree of dependence, becoming more extrapunitive and obstacle dominant as drug dependency increases.Keywords
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