Before proceeding, let us glance at some of the terms which we will use and which one is likely to encounter in the general
literature on alcoholism.
In her review of the professional
literature on alcoholism and marriage, Margaret Bailey concludes: «Most students of the problem have found in some or all of their cases this interactive pattern of the dependent, inadequate alcoholic male married to a dominating woman who is usually seen as maintaining a semblance of adequacy only at his expense.»
Not exact matches
Sources of
literature and guidance include local Councils
on Alcoholism, the National Council
on Alcoholism, and denominational social problems agencies.
A lawyer whose wife showed unmistakable signs of
alcoholism included several AA pamphlets and other suitable
literature in a stack of papers
on his desk at home.