AA BOOK REVIEW NEJ of
Medicine From; The NEW
ENGLAND JOURNAL OF
MEDICINE, Vol. 221(15),
October 12, 1939
ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS: The story of
how more than one
hundred men have
recovered from alcoholism.
400 pp. New York Works
Publishing Co., 1939,
$3.50. The psychological
aspect of alcoholism taxes
the entire skill and intuition
of the therapist, and the
authors of this book claim
that in the long run the ex-
alcoholic patient who is
properly trained in
psychological method is an
extremely effective person
to bring about the cure of
the neurotic alcoholic
individual. The first part of
the book discusses
methods, with particular
stress on twelve