PSYCHOTHERAPY OF ALCOHOLISM

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The recognition of alcoholism as a disease by the American Medical Association and the public in general has put increasing responsibility on the physician to care for patients suffering from it. In fact, alcoholism is now considered to be our fourth most serious public health problem, being out-ranked only by mental illness, heart disease, and cancer. This presents not only an obligation but also an unusual opportunity for the medical profession to try to help solve one of mankind's oldest and most universal afflictions. Although these difficult and troublesome patients often tax one's tolerance and skill to the utmost, more and more doctors are responding to the challenge of pleas for help from the alcoholic and his family. Many of the crises that the alcoholic faces are medical in nature, and the physician may be in a unique position to start the patient on the road to recovery. Therapy Attitude

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