Identity Problematic of drug addicted adolescents through the Rorschach

Abstract

Drug addiction in adolescence poses difficulties in building identity. Addiction is associated with the problem of loss or instability of internal subjects, which may hinder the completion of the child mourning process and threaten self-loss. A study of the Rorschach protocols of four addicted adolescents showed that they had a weakness in psychic elaboration of psychological conflict, a lack of symbolic function, the leakage of painful depressive-narcissistic emotions, and primitive perceptions of persecution anxiety. These indicators reveal an uncertain narcissistic situation, which is a source of psychological fragility, self-image disorder, unstable identity boundaries and a feeling of psychological continuity. Resorting to "experience of sensory excitations" achieves the feeling of filling an internal vacuum and possessing a real body, and repel depression or destructive activity of the death impulse. Addicted adolescent may be worried about the Self-annihilation and this feeling is only