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L PROS? C T U S In the past three years of research vith the dreg LSD-25, 've have develoted reliable methods of analysing social situations and interactions. Cur progress in assessing personality types is useful in diagnosis and nredicticn. These nstheds are based on a multi discioline assessnent of personality m dy.r.~l. c social, adjustment under corral circumstances and under stress, i.e., drug effect, irrespective of the attributes of any specific drug. The briefest nhrase to characterise cur rain area of study is "social nerscnality" . A laboratory of experinental social psychiatry has been established in such a vay that various types of personality and rany situations ray be subjected to critical study. ?cr example, its methods can be anplied to any specific problem such as the effects of LSD cr other drugs liloe alcohol, cz\ the improvement of interpersonal relations . There are tvo imoertant steps to be tahen: (l) Completing the work in congress of personality types so ve car. define nore clearly cur social personality typ es and relate them to (a) the -3 — — *3,^ 1 . O - us cn nore standard, objective tests suen as trs neons.er vhich the or-/ cf tvees is cased, and (b) the conventional clinical crojective tests such as the Rorschach and Thematic Apper- ception Tests; (2) Trying cut the utility cf these tests and special interview and questionnaire methods developed im the course of our studies for predicting specifiable change in social behavior following the ingestion cf various drugs, particularly LSD and alcohol . i }