ABSTRACT
In the playing of war games, excitement is sought, practiced, and developed. The process is depersonalized and there is little or no responsibility taken. Addiction to war games, sexual games, or cops and robbers games without any sense of sadness and guilt is pathological. Even if token sadness and guilt are felt, a kind of psychic poise or balance may be restored. Even if token sadness and guilt are felt, a kind of psychic poise or balance may be restored. In adolescents who have become addicted to the antidevelopmental resorts, including the habitual use of drugs, the situation can become complicated by the effect of the drug or the resort itself. Some anti-developmental resorts heighten an already existing imbalance between life and death instincts, tilting them toward death. The more addictively enmeshed adolescent has a relatively high rate of mortality and remedial services will be taxed to their limit if any of the salvage operations are to prove successful.
