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IN previous communications, others1,2 and ourselves3–5 have dealt principally with factors other than personality structure involved in drug produced model psychoses. The importance of the personality structure was explicitly suggested by Hess6, who emphasized that psychotomimetic compounds “only provoke symptoms which are already potentially present within the cerebral organization…”
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FISCHER, R., MARKS, P., HILL, R. et al. Personality Structure as the Main Determinant of Drug Induced (Model) Psychoses. Nature 218, 296–298 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218296a0
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