Sober Synthesis

I recently came across a full text PDA of an article written by Robert Britt, professor of neurology and psychiatry at St. Louis University in 1947. It offers a fascinating look at the academic views on alcoholism at the time. Many of those ideas still resonate in the recovery and treatment communities today.

An excerpt from the article:

The full text is available here. It includes a typology of different types of alcoholics and thoughts on an approach to include the “doctor and priest”. It mentions a positive review of the newly formed Alcoholics Anonymous.

https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&&context=lnq&&sei-redir=1&referer=https%253A%252F%252Fscholar.google.com%252Fscholar%253Fhl%253Den%2526as_sdt%253D0%25252C11%2526q%253Dalcoholism%252Bmoral%252Bfailing%2526btnG%253D#search=%22alcoholism%20moral%20failing%22