Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever, he keeps his advisers and ministers at a respectful distance. His constant companion, and only close friend, is his 54-year-old sister Fatima. After their parents died, when Fatima was nine, Jinnah brought her up. She was a dentist for a year in Bombay; her first patient was brother Mohamed. She gave up dentistry to look after him when his wife died...
...patient, a middle-aged businessman, faced the sanatorium psychiatrist defiantly. His wife was leaving him and his business partner was quitting. In the last, taut stage of a prodigious binge, the patient announced importantly that he had come to "dry out" again...
...patient glared and clapped his hat on his head. Then defiance oozed out of him. He picked up a pen and signed himself...
...psychiatrist, Dr. Harry M, Tiebout, that surrender was as dramatic as a profession of religious faith. Dr. Tiebout believes that it was, essentially, a kind of spiritual awakening. Soon afterward, the patient joined Alcoholics Anonymous and quit drinking for good. He said to the psychiatrist some time later: "You did something to me when you made me sign that card. I knew you meant business. I made up my mind I wasn't going to run my own case any longer. . . . [Then] I felt calmer and quieter inside and have ever since...
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...