Iszaj Fruzsina, Ehmann Bea, Griffiths Mark D, Demetrovics Zsolt
a Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction, Institute of Psychology , ELTE Eötvös Loránd University , Budapest , Hungary.
b Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology , Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Budapest , Hungary.
Subst Use Misuse. 2018 Jul 3;53(8):1275-1280. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2017.1404103. Epub 2017 Nov 29.
Psychoactive substance use has often been claimed to help generate and facilitate the artistic creative process.
This study explored the role of artists' substance use in their creative processes and their efforts to balance between enhancement and relaxation.
Semistructured interviews concerning the artistic creative process and the role of psychoactive substance use were recorded with 72 artists and analyzed using content analysis. The participants were classified according to their substance use in three groups (Cannabis Group, Alcohol Group, and Control Group).
Results show that both alcohol and cannabis were used to facilitate creativity and the emotional states that are necessary for the artistic creative process. Participants in the Control group reported that listening to music might function as a mind-altering tool. It was also found that for some artists, substance use is not only characteristic to creation, but it is also part of their everyday lives.
Artists are aware of the balancing phenomenon during the artistic creative process. Whether psychoactive substance(s) or other environmental stimuli (such as music) are used to reach the required effect appears to depend upon the individual.
人们常常认为使用精神活性物质有助于激发和促进艺术创作过程。
本研究探讨了艺术家使用物质在其创作过程中的作用，以及他们在增强和放松之间寻求平衡的努力。
对72位艺术家进行了关于艺术创作过程以及精神活性物质使用作用的半结构化访谈，并进行录音，然后采用内容分析法进行分析。参与者根据其物质使用情况被分为三组（大麻组、酒精组和对照组）。
结果表明，酒精和大麻都被用于促进创造力以及艺术创作过程中所需的情绪状态。对照组的参与者报告称，听音乐可能起到改变心境的作用。研究还发现，对一些艺术家来说，使用物质不仅是创作的特点，也是他们日常生活的一部分。
艺术家们意识到在艺术创作过程中的平衡现象。使用精神活性物质还是其他环境刺激因素（如音乐）来达到所需效果似乎因人而异。
