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We are all familiar with this type.
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In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman
of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic
of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.
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For the type of alcoholic
who is able and willing to get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted.
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But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to
admit that our justification for a spree
was insanely insufficient in the light
of what always happened.
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There is the type who always
believes that after being entirely free from alcohol for a period of time he can take a drink without danger.
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There is the manic-depressive type, who is, perhaps, the least understood by his friends,
and about whom a whole chapter could be written.
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I personally know scores of cases who were of the
type with whom other methods had failed completely.
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