About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment

In The Personality of the Alcoholic: Guises of Dependency (Harper & Row), Howard T. Blane, Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, has succinctly laid to rest what might be called the "specificity theory" of alcoholism. He says that no personality characteristic is unique to the alcoholic. He examines the many personality characteristics found among them (traits also present in us all).