Word: lollies
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Plan Clinic a jittery sack. The night before, for the 14th time in six years, he had been arrested for drunkenness. Obsessed by the idea that he had killed his brother (who had caught pneumonia while looking after him), he was in a suicidal mood. Medical Director Dr. Giorgio Lolli skipped preliminaries and applied emergency treatment: relieving the patient's sense of guilt. Said Dr. Lolli, 15 minutes later: "He came in a bum and went out a person. I think he'll come back this afternoon-sober...
...alcoholic's hangover, says Dr. Lolli, differs fundamentally from that of a casual drinker: the alcoholic, after a drinking bout, is beset with uncontrollable tremors, nameless fears, insomnia, an enlarged liver, all sorts of neurotic digestive disorders. He badly needs food, because a prolonged diet of alcohol produces vitamin and mineral deficiencies...
...Lolli's hangover treatment usually begins with sedatives, vitamins, a warm bath (to quiet the patient and help him sleep). The chief ingredient is psychotherapy, which starts almost at once, while the patient is most susceptible. First step: to relieve him of certain common misconceptions about his condition...
Misconception No. 2. Drinking, he thinks, is the cause of his neuroses. The fact: drinking is the result, not the cause. Psychiatrists recognize only one mental disorder directly attributable to alcoholism: delirium tremens (which attacks 4% of alcoholics). According to Dr. Lolli, every alcoholic is a neurotic (or psychotic)-but the neurosis came first...