 Here, Lenkiewicz often adopted an allegorical pictorial style to portray human physiology "in extremis".Lenkiewicz came to the conclusion that the kinds of sensations people felt when a lover abandoned them or when their cherished beliefs were threatened were identical in kind to the 'withdrawal symptoms' and anxieties experienced by addicts or alcoholics over their preferred narcotic.These projects thus became an extended study in 'addictive behaviour' (the title of his 20th, unfinished, project).