• Dr Bibin Chand. K. S.
• Kratika Ramesh

Symptomatic severity of psycho pathological abnormalities in substance abuse individuals pertaining to thought, coping, affective, and behaviors differs individual to individual. Among them, Substance-induced psychotic disorder is considered of higher severity with psychotic or affective features viz: delusions, hallucinations, depressive, manic and mixed (ICD-10). Correlations between disturbance in self-concepts and psychotic disorders have being focused by numerous researches. Due to the complicated nature of symptoms mental health professionals mostly face hitches in diagnosing as well as therapeutic management while handling primary psychotic disorders like Schizophrenia and secondary psychotic disorders like induced psychotic disorders (Singer & Brabender, 1993). Here comes the prominence of projective techniques where the subject is unaware of the purposes of the test and also, unable to judge how particular responses are interpreted. This study investigated Rorschach indices and self-perception by administrating Rorschach Ink Blot test among male patients who were diagnosed as substance induced psychosis as per ICD-10 diagnostic criteria and were compared with normal male group. In this cross-sectional study, Purposive Sampling Method was used to collect data from 30 male inpatients with substance induced psychosis and from 30 males as control group. General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) by Goldberg & Hiller, 1979) has been used as screening tool for control group. Descriptive statistics, Chi Square test and ANOVA have been used for data analyses. Results revealed significant difference among the groups and the patients with Substance-induced psychosis had low perception about self as compared to the control group. Propositions of findings for the management of Substance-induced psychosis were also discussed.

Substance Induced Psychosis, Self-Perception, Rorschach Ink Blot test, GHQ-28.

"Rorschach Indices and Self- Perception among Males with Substance Induced Psychosis. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.278-282, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908841.pdf

"Rorschach Indices and Self- Perception among Males with Substance Induced Psychosis. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp278-282, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908841.pdf