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A. ARTHUR SUGERMAN, MB, Med DSc; DAVID REILLY, MEd; ROBERT S. ALBAHARY, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(6):552-556.

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THE ETIOLOGY of alcohol addiction remains obscure. A frequent formulation is that the disorder is a symptom manifestation of an underlying mental or personality disturbance, usually of a nonspecific nature;^1-4 however, some consider that even this view is due to a bias in experience, and that alcoholism may be found in people with quite normal⁵ or even "magnificent"⁶ personalities.

As in so many other areas in psychiatry causative factors have been sought in family background,^7-9 the pressures of culture and the adult role,⁷ and in biochemical and nutritional abnormalities.⁶ Although these various approaches may reflect the different emphases of different investigators, often dealing with differing social and cultural groups, it may be more useful from the point of view of research to consider alcohol addiction as a group of disorders, analogous to Bleuler's "group of schizophrenias." Within this group . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PRINCETON, NJ

From the New Jersey Bureau of Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, Investigative Psychiatry Section.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov 20, 1964.

Reprint requests to Bureau of Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, Box 1000, Princeton, NJ 08540 (Dr. Sugerman).

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