Drugs and human interactions.

Some reflections and hypotheses on drugs and human interactions are presented from a psychiatric-psychotherapeutic point of view. Considering the drug both as an agent and a relational mediator, an attempt is made to systematize the interactive whole of the intraindividual and interindividual effects activated by drugs. The hypothesis is presented that pharmacological effects on mind are prevalently due to an energic action and that this action is status-specific, in other words relative to a mental-relational good order of the individual in that particular moment of his history. Concerning the extra-pharmacological effects in therapeutic relations, the values assumed from the drug during the course of the interaction are different and variable, depending in the same individual (patient or therapist) on superimposition of several experiential and semantic orders. Finally some elements of drug relational psychology are introduced.