Procure The Natural History Of Alcoholism Revisited Curated By George E. Vaillant Displayed In Manuscript

The Natural History of Alcoholism was first published in, it was acclaimed in the press as the single most important contribution to the literature on alcoholism since the first edition of Alcoholic Anonymous's Big Book.
George Vaillant took on the crucial questions of whether alcoholism is a symptom or a disease, whether it is progressive, whether alcoholics differ from others before the onset of their alcoholism, and whether alcoholics can safely drink.
Based on an evaluation of more thanindividuals followed for over forty years, Vaillant's monumental study offered new and authoritative answers to all of these questions.




In this updated version of his classic book, Vaillant returns to the same subjects with the perspective gained from fifteen years of further followup.
Alcoholics who had been studied to agein the earlier book have now reached ageand beyond, and Vaillant reassesses what we know about alcoholism in light of both their experiences and the many new studies of the disease by other researchers.
The result is a sharper focus on the nature

and course of this devastating disorder as well as a sounder foundation for the assessment of various treatments.
I didn't really read the entire book I skimmed it, Too technical. But I was utterly fascinated by the whole thing and riveted by Vaillant's theory of the "spiritual" treatment required by this "biopsychosocial" malady, He was one of the head trustees of AA, and he basically called AA a "benign" cult that works better than nothing at all or the same as nothing at all the exact phraseology was a bit muffled by vagaries.
George Eman Vaillant, M. D. , born, is an American psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Vaillant has spent his research career charting adult development and the recovery process of schizophrenia, heroin addiction, alcoholism, and personality disorder, Through, he spentyears as Director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service, The study has prospectively charted the lives ofmen and women for overyears, A major focus of his work in the past has been to develop ways of studying defense mechanisms empirically recently, he has been interested in successful aging and human happiness George Eman Vaillant, M.
D. , born, is an American psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Vaillant has spent his research career charting adult development and the recovery process of schizophrenia, heroin addiction, alcoholism, and personality disorder, Through, he spentyears as Director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service, The study has prospectively charted the lives ofmen and women for overyears, A major focus of his work in the past has been to develop ways of studying defense mechanisms empirically recently, he has been interested in successful aging and human happiness.
Villant has received the Foundations Fund Prize for Research in Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association, the Strecker Award from The Pennsylvania Hospital, the Burlingame Award from The Institute for Living, and the Jellinek Award for research on alcoholism.
Inhe received the research prize of the International Psychogeriatric Society, summarised from Wikipedia sitelink.