Treatment and Rehabilitation of the Chronic Alcoholic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Theory and Practice in the Treatment of Alcoholism

   • Benjamin Kissin

   Pages 1-51

3. Medical Management of the Alcoholic Patient

   • Benjamin Kissin

   Pages 53-103

4. Psychotherapeutic Approach

   • Howard T. Blane

   Pages 105-160

5. Engaging the Alcoholic in Treatment and Keeping Him There

   • Frederick Baekeland, Lawrence K. Lundwall

   Pages 161-195

6. Toward a Social Model: An Assessment of Social Factors Which Influence Problem Drinking and Its Treatment

   • Allan Beigel, Stuart Ghertner

   Pages 197-233

7. Group Psychotherapy in Alcoholism

   • David R. Doroff

   Pages 235-258

8. Family Therapy in Alcoholism

   • Peter Steinglass

   Pages 259-299

9. Behavioral Assessment and Treatment of Alcoholism

   • Peter E. Nathan, Dan W. Briddell

   Pages 301-349

10. The Role of the Halfway House in the Rehabilitation of Alcoholics

    • Earl Rubington

    Pages 351-383

11. Evaluation of Treatment Methods in Chronic Alcoholism

    • Frederick Baekeland

    Pages 385-440

12. Factors in the Development of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.)

    • Barry Leach, John L. Norris

    Pages 441-543

13. Role of the Recovered Alcoholic in the Treatment of Alcoholism

    • Sheila B. Blume

    Pages 545-565

14. Training for Professionals and Nonprofessionals in Alcoholism

    • Edward Blacker

    Pages 567-592

15. Public Health Treatment Programs in Alcoholism

    • Morris E. Chafetz, Robert Yoerg

    Pages 593-614

16. Back Matter

    Pages 615-631

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The present volume contains a large variety of treatment approaches to the long-term rehabilitation of the alcoholic, ranging from the biological to the physiological to the psychological to the social. The multiplicity of proposed therapies, each of which has its strong proponents, suggests that alcoholism is either a complex medical-social disease syndrome requiring a multipronged treatment approach or a very simple illness for which we have not yet dis­ covered the remedy. The latter may, indeed, be true, but we cannot use what we do not know and must use what we do know. We do, however, have the obligation to be responsible in our treatment, to provide the best that is known at this time, and to be discriminating in our prescription of appropriate treat­ ment for individual patients. If there is one conclusion we would like to offer in our preface, it is that alcoholics constitute a markedly heterogeneous popula­ tion with widely disparate needs, for whom, at least at our present level of knowledge, a broad spectrum of treatment modalities is necessary. If this is true, then probably most of this book has validity. With this volume on the treatment and rehabilitation of the chronic alco­ holic, we bring to completion our five-volume series, The Biology of Alcoholism. As the title of the present volume indicates, we have departed from our original intention to deal solely with biological aspects of the syndrome and have attempted rather to produce a more comprehensive work.

• Motivation
• Syndrom
• alcohol
• alcoholism
• biology
• coping
• diagnosis
• growth
• marriage
• prevention
• psychology
• psychotherapy
• rehabilitation
• syndromes
• therapy

• Division of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Brooklyn, USA

  Benjamin Kissin, Henri Begleiter

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