Description
Alcoholism is the forgotten disease, an illness rarely thought of as a medical problem. Yet it is growing and spreading in every age and social group throughout modern society. This important book, now in a new updated edition, is the result of over twenty years observation and treatment of alcoholics by Max Glatt, the distinguished consultant psychiatrist and one of the few medical specialists on alcoholism in the world today.
The purpose of this book is to encourage a basic understanding of alcoholism both for the alcoholic himself and for his friends and relatives, and to suggest what they can all do to halt and cure the disease. But the book also makes a major contribution to the prevention of alcoholism by describing how the disease can arise through a variety of causes - highly relevant to all those who look to alcohol for confidence or relief. Dr Glatt's book is also of great practical importance to students, nurses, social workers, doctors and others who come into contact with this increasingly prevalent social disease.
