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Personality as a Determinant of the Form of Alcoholism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

H. J. Walton
H. J. Walton*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10
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Two common forms of alcoholism are described (World Health Organization, 1952; Kessel and Walton, 1965). The first is well recognized clinically, and has often been portrayed accurately by novelists and dramatists. So successfully has this more conspicuous form of alcohol addiction been publicized by Alcoholics Anonymous that Jellinek (1960) cautioned medical readers against overemphasis on it to the exclusion of the other clinical variety of the illness.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 511 , June 1968 , pp. 761 - 766
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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