Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral fear, to which unhappy man can make some realistic readjustment. Mowrer's prescription: a changed attitude toward social authority and its "internal representative," anxiety. If man's attitude is not changed, he will continue to seek relief from anxiety in such futile devices as tobacco, alcohol, gambling, "sexual monomania," gluttony...
When man ceases to make his stomach a burial place for the bodies of dead animals, with the resultant collection of billions of bacteria from oxidation of those bodies; when he eats natural food-fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts; when he stops poisoning his body with alcohol, tobacco, "medicinal" drugs, manufactured carbonated drinks, and the gastronomical debris that passes for the full life in our day, then his bloodstream will be clean (and unsludged!), his body will be well and will function as the wonderful and fearful machine that...
Surrender. Tweedy, genial Dr. Harry Tiebout (pronounced teebo) is physician-in-charge of the Blythewood sanatorium in Greenwich, Conn. He is also a lecturer at Yale's School of Alcohol Studies and an admirer of Alcoholics Anonymous. Like many another psychiatrist, he had long wondered what mysterious power enables A.A. to reform alcoholics when psychiatry fails. He has decided that the secret of A.A.'s success is the alcoholics' surrender to a higher power. And Dr. Tiebout has figured out a psychiatrist's explanation...
Admission. Tiebout thinks that for such characters, standard psychotherapy -building up the patient's ego and self-confidence-is sadly misplaced. He is convinced that an alcoholic who stubbornly tries to defeat the habit all by himself is sure to fail. A.A.'s major discovery, says the psychiatrist, is that the first essential step is the alcoholic's admission that alone he is helpless against alcohol...
...Burt McGuire Jr., Manhattan playboy, for becoming the fifth husband of Lillian Roth, former Ziegfeld star and subject of articles on how she conquered alcohol...