Alcoholism : a review of its characteristics, etiology, treatments, and controversies /

Alcoholism: A Review of Its Characteristics, Etiology, Treatment, and Controversies provides an accurate picture of the current state of research and treatment effectiveness in the field of alcoholism. Using compelling evidence, Irving Maltzman describes how the field has been distorted by the behav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maltzman, Irving
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Why alcoholism is a disease
  • Where does behaviorism stand
  • Alcoholism from a behavioristic point of view
  • The place of facts in a world of value
  • How not to conduct an investigation
  • The rise and fall of controlled drinking
  • Abstinence does work
  • From controlled drinking to harm reduction, two decades of pettifogging : a reply to Marlatt et al.
  • Little Albert redux : or whatever happened to scholarship
  • Sitting pretty
  • The place of facts in a world of values : what is to be done.