“If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.” IfsMenFeelsYearsChildrenLittlesMomentsProblemFoundLinesSleepWonderGrowing UpWifeGrowingMovementTragedyAcceptedRecoveryHospitalsCynicalSentimentalAlcoholicsPsychiatristFiringRehabilitationDaily WorkYears Of Experience Author:William Duncan Silkworth
“We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.” YearsBelieveHumansSelfUseProblemActionFormFoundLostDifficultClassBreakTypeHabitYears AgoAverageSolveAlcoholSelf ConfidenceRecoveryManifestationPhenomenonCravingRelianceAlcoholicsDrinkersAllergicAllergies Author:William Duncan Silkworth
