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The Sophisticated Alcoholic by David Allen
The Sophisticated Alcoholic by David Allen
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221 pages, Paperback
21.5cm x 14cm
Condition: AS NEW: Although technically second-hand, its condition is as new. It may have been kept in storage or warehoused, never been sold, or never read or opened before.
Goodreads Rating: 4.00 * 5 ratings * 0 reviews
Genre: Nonfiction/Self Help/Alcoholism
The book breaks all the rules about treating alcoholism. It’s not just about the stereotypical alcoholic but for the invisible majority, the middle class drinkers, the people who are in control of their lives but with one significant exception that they have already concluded that their use of alcohol is excessive. These are the silent majority the ‘Sophisticated Alcoholics’. Nobody really knows how many there are but there is a suspicion that the number is very large indeed. People who come to see me privately for help with their own personal battles with alcohol are invariably members of this group. The book would be about a cure were alcoholism to be an illness instead of a behaviour but, instead it is about resolution, a permanent change of relationship between the person and the bottle so that alcohol ceases to retain any importance in a life. I belonged to this group for too many years and now I don’t. People can completely change their relationship with alcohol if they address the real issues lying behind and driving their actions because I and others have done so. Alcoholism, as it turns out has nothing to do with alcohol.
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