In the course of this, Hartigan's emotional life suffered: she was divorced three times by the age of 30 and afflicted
by alcoholism which she would only come to control in old age.
Among those seeking pastoral help are some whose disturbance in living is associated with or caused
by alcoholism which may be hidden from themselves, in that they do not recognize the compulsive quality of their drinking.
Not exact matches
This is an unconscious process
by which normal social controls,
which have had little meaning to Joe in the advanced stages of his
alcoholism, are reestablished.
These diseases are
by - products of
alcoholism, and their treatment,
which may be a long - term process, is an essential contribution of medical skill to full recovery.
Theresa, who works as an administrator at Victory Outreach Manchester - a church
which operates recovery homes for those affected
by alcoholism - told Premier: «Even within our own circles, whether it's in work or church, we need to be training people that these guidelines are actually quite stringent.»
She continues: «No,
alcoholism is NOT a disease; it is a sin
which is willfully committed
by a person» (p. 70).
A discussion of this whole matter,
which could be read with profit
by the minister, is found in an article
by Giorgio Lolli entitled «On «Therapeutic» Success in
Alcoholism.»
This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of
Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined,
by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in
which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»
Without seeming to «grill» the person,
which would make him defensive, a few of these questions can be sprinkled into the discussion, followed
by the observation that these are some of the typical early symptoms of problem drinking or
alcoholism.
This chapter discusses the distinctive contribution
which can be made
by a religious approach to
alcoholism in contrast to a non-religious approach.
The assumption that all alcoholics have major underlying personality disorders
which cause their
alcoholism was sharply challenged
by E. M. Jellinek.
These questions are the same as those to
which we have addressed ourselves in a five - year National Institute of Mental Health Research and Training Project for the training of clergymen in the field of
alcoholism conducted at the Georgian Clinic (1964 - 69)(«Pilot Project for Clinical Training of Clergymen in The Field of Alcoholism» NIMH Grant # 8589, staffed by: George P. Dominick, Co-Director; John M. Crow, Coordinator of Training; Melvin B. Drurker, Clinical Psychologist for Ev
alcoholism conducted at the Georgian Clinic (1964 - 69)(«Pilot Project for Clinical Training of Clergymen in The Field of
Alcoholism» NIMH Grant # 8589, staffed by: George P. Dominick, Co-Director; John M. Crow, Coordinator of Training; Melvin B. Drurker, Clinical Psychologist for Ev
Alcoholism» NIMH Grant # 8589, staffed
by: George P. Dominick, Co-Director; John M. Crow, Coordinator of Training; Melvin B. Drurker, Clinical Psychologist for Evaluation.)
By helping parents to do that
which they basically want to do but often can not — namely, raise children who are mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy — the church would help to prevent
alcoholism at its very roots.
The emotional damage
which underlies
alcoholism seems to have happened at a very early age, in many cases, and has been overlaid
by many strata of comparatively normal personality adjustment.
Two of them pointed to the social dimension of the sickness when they wrote: «The Church's job, I think, is to shed the searchlight of the Gospel on the causes of human misery of
which alcoholism is a symptom»; and «We can prevent it
by helping people learn how to live in a complex world.»
Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused
by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism,
which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like
alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.
A group of experts on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), organized
by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism (NIAAA), has produced proposed clinical guidelines for diagnosing FASD,
which can result when a mother drinks during pregnancy.
The Pearson Center, co-founded
by Dr. Barbara J. Mason and Dr. George F. Koob, is a part of the Scripps Research Institute,
which is one of the world leaders in the biomedical science of
alcoholism, addiction, and the brain.
Four years ago, my acupuncturist put me on a copper - zinc balancing program, but it was only about a year ago that I learned about pyroluria from the Resource Tool Kit in The Mood Cure
by Julia Ross, MA.29 Those of us with this condition, affecting 11 percent of the population, produce excessive amounts of a metabolic toxin called pyrroles,
which requires vitamin B6 and zinc for detoxification.30 Significantly, this condition is found disproportionately in those with
alcoholism, 31 schizophrenia32 and mood disorders.33 It can also produce baffling physical symptoms due to heightened deficiency of these two nutrients, as well as manganese, 34 a nutrient that is crucially needed to activate arginase, 35 the enzyme that converts ammonia to urea for excretion from the body.
Alcohol use is nothing uncommon today,
which is best depicted
by results of a survey published
by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism [i]:
Radiant Recovery (radiantrecovery.com/resourcecenter/alcdrug.html) This site was developed
by Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD., the author of Potatoes not Prozac
which charts the relationship between sugar addiction and
alcoholism.
Another helpful book
which has benefited many people with its nutritional advice is Seven Weeks To Sobriety: The Proven Program to Fight
Alcoholism Through Nutrition
by Joan Mathew Larson Ph.D..
Opening titles establish 1925 as the peak of this Barrymore's stage success, then followed
by a slow descent into
alcoholism,
which would ultimately claim his life at age 60 in May of 1942.
One thing I decidedly did not like was the framing device of Nick Carraway writing the story from a sanitarium, where he has gone to recuperate from the «morbid
alcoholism» (I think those are the words we see on his diagnostic papers) brought on
by the tragedy to
which he was witness.
He's killed off
by the closing credits, an intertitle card informing us that nearly two decades after the release of his most famous work — after
which he would never publish another book — he died of liver cancer (likely caused
by years of
alcoholism).
On top of the repetitive information, depression also fills this movie as scene
by scene, minute
by minute, more crap hits the fan, most of
which comes in the form of
alcoholism or relationship troubles.
... except for «all idiots, imbeciles, feeble - minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority; persons with chronic
alcoholism; paupers; professional beggars; vagrants; persons afflicted with tuberculosis in any form or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified
by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such physical defect being of a nature
which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who practice polygamy or believe in or advocate the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow
by force or violence of the Government of the United States.»
He warns of The Ostrich Phenomenon,
which was described
by Patricia Sue Heil, in «Tending the Bar in Texas:
Alcoholism as a Mitigating Factor in Attorney Discipline» (24 St. Mary's L.J. 1263, 1278 - 79 (1993).
One of the world's most beautiful cities will provide the backdrop for the conference,
which focuses on the theme of helping families whose lives have been complicated
by disability, divorce, mental health issues,
alcoholism, extreme poverty or disadvantage.
Roe also mentioned Bell's (1937) work on illustrious mathematicians, in
which around one - quarter had lost a parent before age 10 and nearl one - third before age 14... parental loss can occur
by means other than orphanhood, such as
alcoholism, abandonment, and divorce...»