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 cannot! You must help me!'...One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change. Though the aggregate of recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole. Many types do not respond to the ordinary psychological approach.
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,…
- 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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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