2016International Journal of Indian PsychologyOpen access

Treatment of Drug Addicts by Psychoastrotherapy

Meena Sharma, Vandana Sharma

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The aim of the present study ascertaining the personality characteristics of treated and non-treated drug addicts, using Hindi version of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire and Death Anxiety Scale. 100 subjects were taken for this study out of this 50 treated and 50 non-treated drug addicts were evaluated at S.I. Mental and Physical Health Society “SIMPHS”, Varanasi, district in India. Psycho-astrotherapy was given to those groups who attend the Centre for treatment. These groups were matched on the variables of age range 18-35 years with a mean age of 21.01 years. Addiction period ranged from two year to six years. The finding reveals that characteristics associated with non-treated drug addicts are anxiety, obsession, phobia, somatization, depression and hysteria, and death anxiety.

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The aim of the present study ascertaining the personality characteristics of treated and non-treated drug addicts, using Hindi version of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire and Death Anxiety Scale. 100 subjects were taken for this study out of this 50 treated and 50 non-treated drug addicts were evaluated at S.I. Mental and Physical Health Society “SIMPHS”, Varanasi, district in India. Psycho-astrotherapy was given to those groups who attend the Centre for treatment. These groups were matched on the variables of age range 18-35 years with a mean age of 21.01 years. Addiction period ranged from two year to six years. The finding reveals that characteristics associated with non-treated drug addicts are anxiety, obsession, phobia, somatization, depression and hysteria, and death anxiety.

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The aim of the present study ascertaining the personality characteristics of treated and non-treated drug addicts, using Hindi version of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire and Death Anxiety Scale. 100 subjects were taken for this study out of this 50 treated and 50 non-treated drug addicts were evaluated at S.I. Mental and Physical Health Society “SIMPHS”, Varanasi, district in India. Psycho-astrotherapy was given to those groups who attend the Centre for treatment. These groups were matched on the variables of age range 18-35 years with a mean age of 21.01 years. Addiction period ranged from two year to six years. The finding reveals that characteristics associated with non-treated drug addicts are anxiety, obsession, phobia, somatization, depression and hysteria, and death anxiety.

Key concepts: Somatization, Anxiety, Addiction, Drug addict, Psychiatry, Depression (economics), Personality, Hysteria

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