Sentences with phrase «nature as alcoholism»

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The mission conception of the human situation — the nature of sin, free will, and responsibility — as it relates to alcoholism is philosophically and psychologically inadequate.

In the case of Mrs. R., these include an understanding of the nature of alcoholism (as it eventually became clear that Mr. R. is an alcoholic), the futility of her attempts to coerce him to stop drinking, and the importance of her changing her assumption that any improvement in the family situation is totally dependent on his sobriety.

Some will say that attempting to prevent alcoholism at the grass roots is so large an undertaking as to be almost Utopian in nature.

The churches in the temperance tradition have tended, on the one hand, to regard their position as the only «Christian» one, to misunderstand the nature of alcoholism, to divide all persons into two groups - drinkers and nondrinkers.

... 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.»

And that after all, an artist is a man with his work to do...» Such Romantic ideas about the link between drunkenness and continuing creativity have been made less credible since the 20th century by widespread acceptance of «alcoholism» as a disease, and then by increased understanding of the nature of alcohol dependency.