Effects of Psychotherapy in an Open-Ward Hospital on Patients with Alcoholism

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Abstract
One hundred male veterans with alcoholism, treated with psychotherapy, were followed an average of 3.5 years after discharge. Fourteen were improved, 21 slightly improved, 33 unimproved, 7 died, 7 in other hospitals, 9 in jail, and 9 lost to follow-up. Patients who left the hospital before completion of treatment had one-third the improvement rate. Various factors were isolated which did or did not correlate with degree of improvement, the most important of which was the degree of ability to accept the treatment relationship with its necessary obligations.

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