THE "PSYCHOLOGY OF DRUGS" ACCORDING TO INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY: ARTICULATED THERAPIES IN PSYCHIATRY

Abstract

The "Psychology of drugs" aims to an understanding of the synergic or antagonistic action that biological, psychological and social informations transmitted through the "drug-mediating object" have on psychotherapy. Adlerian concepts such as Life-Style, body language, intrapsychic communication, empathy, etc., seem to be useful for a comprehensive model regarding: 1) the hypotesis that psycho-biological structures can be modified by the infor- mations that they elaborate; 2) the "network model" (Rovera) which concerns, among other things, the theoretical and technical aspects of articulated, or combined, therapies. Important aspects of these considerations are: the prescription of drugs as interpersonal relationship, the evaluation of side-effects and compliance, the pharmaco-resistence due to non pharmacological factors, the psychological and social "metabolism of drugs"