Findings:
Brown Sugar Addicts:- Self image is degraded , in all most all the cases . They express need for achievement coupled with need for recognition. Need for aggression is noticed but it is combined with regression and projection. Some how they are able to establish emotional bond and was able to identify with father and mother figure .Ambivalence with pleasure and reality principle is reflected. Separation anxiety and anxiety of loss are evident .Defenses which are prominent are isolation and withdrawal. Most of them try to make happy ending but infantile oral aggression is seen .
Buprenorphine addicts: Analysis of TAT reveals gross apperceptive distortion of the social relations of the social relationships . They are unable to perceive properly the social dynamics. using needles itself imply distorted phallic symbol where aggression is fused with sex Conflict they chiefly show is activity/ passivity .Anxiety is also seen as a flight and orality . Defenses they usually manifest social withdrawal in result depression and stories are of unhappy ending in nature .
Ganja addicts : TAT analysis show addicts have a distorted perception of reality , even they hallucinate .They are unable structure proper stories, phantasies of them are most frequently either those of being invaded by Ganja psychosis or in an impregnation phantasy . They unconsciously and consciously avoid reality and feel castrated and weak . Conflict they manifest are intra /extra aggression. Cognitive distortion along with hidden anxiety are prominent , stories are chiefly ended unhappily.
Alcoholics: TAT reflects non-congenial environment , impaired thinking , divergent energy from work , family and social life in order to drink . Conflict centers around alcoholics is expression of aggression which inhibit them and they recourse to alcohol again . Analysis of further dynamics reveal alcoholics try to sublimate their needs and anxieties through different forms of creation on oral anxiety specially and try to free them for security, then situation become s worsen – then again begin to start to take alcohol. Such circle continues , on some occasion they regress at oral stage . It is perceived by some of them has shown unhappy ending by committing suicide .