“Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!'...One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change. Though the aggregate of recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole. Many types do not respond to the ordinary psychological approach.” MenFeelsHumansLittlesMadeWholeHelpingProblemEffortProduceTypeGoes OnNeededEssentialsApproachOrdinaryDoctorsImpressionRecoveryPsychologicalAppealsHelp MeSincereCriedPhysiciansPsychicsPsychiatricHuman Power 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
“I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely....because of the extraordinary possibilities of rapid growth inherent in this froup they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism. These men may well have a remedy for thousands of such situations.” KnowsMenWellsMayGrowthSituationCasesPossibilityTypeMarkMethodExtraordinaryRecoveryScoreRemedyInherentRapidsAlcoholismEpochRapid Growth Author:William Duncan Silkworth
