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September 1956

Why Psychiatrists Fail with Alcoholics

In a frank talk to his professional colleagues, one of the top practitioners in the field of alcoholism gives his answer to a baffling question. It also brings AAers up to date on a professional dilemma.

WHILE NO ONE is more convinced than I am that alcoholism is a disease, no one is more appalled than I am at the blithe manner with which the concept has been received and the easy use to which it has been put. To paraphrase Winston Churchill's famous war statement, I could say, "Never has so much been done on so little with so much hullabaloo."

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