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Alcoholism and Affective Disorders

The Basic Questions

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Alcoholism and Clinical Psychiatry

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God’s ways have struck many people, including Amiel, as pretty depressing. What is a good cure for depression? Alcohol, Housman says, and through the ages people have agreed with him.

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea.... Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel (1893).

And Malt does more than Milton can

To Justify God’s ways to man.

—A. E. Housman (1894).

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, 66103, USA

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

    Joel Solomon MD (Clinical Associate Professor, Director) (Clinical Associate Professor, Director)

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Goodwin, D.W. (1982). Alcoholism and Affective Disorders. In: Solomon, J. (eds) Alcoholism and Clinical Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4028-7_8

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