Emerging concepts of alcohol dependence / [electronic resource] / [edited by] E. Mansell Pattison, Mark B. Sobell, and Linda C. Sobell.. — New York : : Springer Pub. Co.,, c1977.. — xii, 369 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 336-352.
The traditional model of alcoholism -- Emerging concepts of alcohol dependence -- Traditional concepts -- Of straw men, stagnant waters, and change -- Conceptual problems of the traditional model -- Reactions to the controversy -- Theories of behavior and the social control of alcoholism / A. S. Linsky -- The sick role, labeling theory, and the deviant drinker / Paul M. Roman, H. M. Trice -- The oddities of alcoholics / Mark Keller -- The first drink: psychobiological aspects of craving / Arnold M. Ludwig, Abraham Wikler, Louis H. Stark -- Loss of control in alcoholism: an investigation of the hypothesis, with experimental findings / Alfonso Paredes, William R. Hood, Harry Seymour, Maury Gollob -- Abstinence and normal drinking: an assessment of changes in drinking patterns in alcoholics after treatment / E. Mansell Pattison, E. B. Headley, G. C. Gleser, L. A. Gottschalk -- Changes in problem drinking over a four-year span / Walter B. Clark, Don Cahalan -- Conclusions consonant with the new data -- Formal Propositions for an emergent model -- Uses of the emergent model -- Cautions about misuse -- Clinical applications -- Determination of treatment goals -- Life health variables -- Development of differential treatment profiles -- Population variation among alcoholism treatment facilities / E. Mansell Pattison, Ronald Coe, Hans O. Doerr -- Social class as a determinant of the type and duration of therapy received by alcoholics / Reginald G. Smart, Wolfgang Schmidt, Marcia K. Moss -- A critique of alcoholism treatment concepts, with special reference to abstinence / E. Mansell Pattison -- A comparison of alcoholics whose drinking is totally uncontrolled and those whose drinking is mainly controlled / Jim Orford -- Second-year treatment outcome of alcoholics treated by individualized behavior therapy: results / Mark B. Sobell, Linda C. Sobell.