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December 1971

The Search for a Personality Pattern

Is there a common denominator among alcoholics? Or are they just people?

IN HER BOOK The Lonely Sickness, Dr. Elizabeth Kingsley says that alcoholism is a "highly personalized disease, fitting the contours of the individual patient's body and mind like an astronaut's pressure suit. The definition that fits one may seem inapt applied to another."

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