"The Common Sense of Drinking"

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HISTOIRE 791c the common sense of drinking

 

HISTOIRE 791 the common sense of drinking

 

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Parution en avril 1931 - Bill W. s'en est inspiré pour la rédaction du Big Book

Dans le chapitre 3, "Autres données sur l'alcoolisme", (Big Book, 4° édition, pages 34 à 49), l'histoire d'un homme de 36 ans apparaît avoir été tirée du livre de Peabody.

Il est un des premiers à avoir proclamé que l'alcoolisme était incurable : " Suffice it to say, once a drunkard always a drunkard–or a teetotaler! A fairly exhaustive inquiry has elicited no exceptions to this rule"

 

richard peabody

Décédé le 26 avril 1936, à NYC, après une rechute

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Harmony Grove Cemetery

Salem - Essex County - Massachusetts - USA

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Amy
22/08/2013 05:23
Is there any literature to backup the statement that Peabody relapsed in 1936?<br /> Thanks!
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kreizker
22/08/2013 11:45
<br /> <br /> It probably is not sufficient to be totally sure, but hereunder excerpts from <br /> <br /> <br />  <br /> <br /> <br /> EARLY ALCOHOLISM TREATMENT: THE EMMANUEL MOVEMENT and RICHARD PEABODY<br /> <br /> <br /> Katherine McCarthy, Ph.D.<br /> <br /> <br /> Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol.45, No.1, 1984.<br /> <br /> <br />  <br /> <br /> <br /> "Peabody and his coworkers apparently did not share Baylor's personal success at remaining sober.<br /> A common opinion is that Peabody died intoxicated, although the evidence is not conclusive.<br /> <br /> <br /> Samuel Crocker, who had once shared an office with Peabody, told Faye R. that he<br /> was intoxicated at the time of his death. The personal copy of Peabody's book<br /> belonging to Bill Wilson (one of the founders of A.A.) now in the A.A. Archives, contains the following inscription; "Dr. Peabody was<br /> as far as is known the first authority to state, "once an alcoholic, always an<br /> alcoholic," and he proved it by returning to drinking and by dying of alcoholism - proving to us that the condition is<br /> uncurable."<br /> <br /> <br /> This copy was originally owned by Rosa Burwell of Philadelphia. Some early A.A. members share the<br /> opinion that Peabody died intoxicated.<br /> <br /> <br /> The published sources contradict each other. Wister quoted Peabody's second wife to the effect<br /> that he died of pneumonia. The editors of Scribner's magazine, which published an article of his<br /> posthumously, claimed that he died of a heart attack. Mrs. Crosby did not say."<br /> <br /> <br />  <br /> <br /> <br />  <br /> <br /> <br /> "Although Peabody's method was widely practiced for about two decades,<br /> <br /> <br /> little is known of its overall therapeutic success, and an accurate guess is impossible at this<br /> date. Marty Mann concluded that Peabody and his therapists "accomplished a heroic work during the 1930's,<br /> when little else was being done for alcoholics" and that the method "was<br /> <br /> <br /> effective with a considerable number"' of patients. It is known that a few remained abstinent and<br /> professionally active in the field of alcoholism. Others who failed at the Peabody method were known to<br /> have joined A.A. in its early years, but it is impossible to determine how many<br /> remained quietly sober without joining A.A. or professional groups. The fact that several of the Peabody method's<br /> major practitioners - apparently including the founder - were not able to maintain their sobriety, however, does not bode well for other patients with whom contact was lost."<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />