The Other Side of the Bottle by Dwight Anderson

 The Other Side of the Bottle by Dwight Anderson.

This book is a second printing from December 1950 with the original dust jacket.

"This is the only complete modern work on alcoholism. People who drink too much, people who drink at all, people interested in either should read Dwight Anderson's book to know all there is to know about the subject."

- PHILIP WYLIE

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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BOTTLE is a gripping and dramatic book which is indispensable to the understanding of the alcoholic. The author's own inspiring story of his recovery, eighteen years ago, from a seemingly incurable form of alcoholism is supplemented by numerous vivid case histories taken from life and literature.

Stephen Foster, Alexander the Great, and Jack London are only a few of the personalities whose tragic needs could only be filled by excess of one kind or another, according to the author, and he includes many moving and pitiful biographical portraits of the alcoholic personality. Never before has an author succeeded in driving home his message with such passion and true sympathy.

The book presents in a lively, readable, and cogent prose every aspect of alcoholism and describes the various treatments available now and in the past. The author reviews the quaint but terrible history of quack nostrums, including the famous Pills-for-Papa's Coffee, and evaluates them. Coming up to the present, he analyzes both the physical and psychological treatments used today, as different types of cases respond to different approaches. He reprints a group therapy transcription from New York's Bellevue Hospital and tells the story of the progressive clinic in Buffalo sponsored by the New York State Department of Health.

There is a chapter on the woman alcoholic; another on the A.A.'s; a chapter on the Yale Plan. The role of the family in helping recovery is set forth in a clear and telling manner, and the responsibilities of society in general toward the alcoholic, and what the future may hold for the solution of this problem. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BOTTLE is absorbing reading and a moving challenge.

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DWIGHT ANDERSON is a member of the board of directors of the National Committee on Alcoholism. He is a frequent contributor to the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, the Yale Plan publication. In 1935 he became Director of Public Relations for the Medical Society of the State of New York and he was made Executive Secretary of the Society in 1945. He is the author of a previous book, "What It Means To Be a Doctor," published in 1939, and was coauthor, in 1942, of "When Doctors Are Rationed." Mr. Anderson's chief hobby is sailing his small sloop, The Horizon, on Moriches Bay, Long Island, where he has a summer home, Hawser House.

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This book is in excellent condition with minimal wear. The original dust jacket has minor edge wear. 

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