If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.
I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely....because of the extraordinar… - William Duncan Silkworth
I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely....because of the extraordinar…
- William Duncan Silkworth
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious,… - William Duncan Silkworth
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious,…
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cann… - William Duncan Silkworth
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cann…
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing li… - William Duncan Silkworth
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing li…
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the pheno… - William Duncan Silkworth
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the pheno…
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