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...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...
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...