Sentences with phrase «phenomenon of alcoholism»

But if we can get past the phenomenon of alcoholism to the persons involved, love is possible.

Six constructs make up the essential phenomena of alcoholism: Psychological dependence on a chemical, craving, loss of control, personality regression, denial, and conflicted behavior» (The Treatment of Alcoholism [NY: Brunner / Mazel, Publishers, 1987], p. 67).

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The mission conceptions of alcoholism and homelessness are grossly in adequate, overlooking nearly all that the social sciences have to tell about these two phenomena.

The naïve moralism in this area can be maintained only by ignoring the facts that inebriety is as much a symptom as a cause of the disturbed interpersonal life of the alcoholic, that alcoholism is a complex disease involving physical, cultural, and socio - psychological as well as moral factors, and that homelessness is in itself a complex phenomenon, not the simple product of excessive drinking.

The latter definitions are definitions of phenomena as social problems while the former is a sociological definition (Becoming Alcoholic: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Reality of Alcoholism [IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986], pp. 99 - 100).

Urging clergy and men of religion to renew or revive the practice of prayer, particularly meditation; (2) Distinguishing between the use of alcohol which does not produce a chronic alcoholic and that in which there is «the allergic nature of true alcoholism»; (3) Stressing that «elimination of the phenomenon of craving that follows the treatment does not constitute a cure [but that] the final cure rests with themselves [alcoholics in the second phase of alcoholism]»; (4) Advocating «moral psychology» in achieving entire recovery from alcoholism; (5) Describing the success of the AA.

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).