By Craig Nakken
One of many first psychiatrists to explain alcoholism as a sickness instead of an ethical failing or criminality, Harry M. Tiebout used to be additionally one of many first to wholeheartedly recommend Alcoholics nameless as a good strength within the fight opposed to compulsive ingesting. This quantity brings jointly, for the 1st time, a few of Tiebout's such a lot influential writings. lots of those pieces--from explorations of the healing method of alcoholism to instructive discussions of the act of quit so the most important to recovery--are seminal files within the heritage, therapy, and figuring out of alcoholism. jointly, they characterize the numerous contribution of 1 guy to the numerous lives shaken by means of alcoholism and steadied with the aid of Alcoholics nameless, psychiatric intervention, and the foresight and dedication of medical professionals like Harry Tiebout.
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He or she is receptive to life, not antagonistic. The person senses a feeling of relatedness and at-oneness that becomes the source of an inner peace and serenity, the possession of which frees the individual from the compulsion to drink. In other words, an act of surrender is an occasion wherein the individual no longer fights life, but accepts it. Having defined an act of surrender as a moment of accepting reality on the unconscious level, it is now possible to define the emotional state of surrender as a state in which there is a persisting capacity to accept reality.
Before I go ahead, it may be wise to recapitulate the contents of [a] previous paper. In it I described how, with the conversion switch, many aspects of the patient's attitudes underwent profound and often remarkable alterations. I pointed out how, in eight major ways, the individual switched or changed. Rather than go through the whole list again, I can sum up these changes briefly by saying that the person who has achieved the positive frame of mind has lost his or her tense, aggressive, demanding, conscience-ridden self that feels isolated and at odds with the world and has become a relaxed, natural, more realistic individual who can dwell in the world on a "live and let live" basis.
This "giving in" may be sudden, causing the patient to enter the positive phase so rapidly as to constitute a sudden turnover with dramatic results. Generally, as in the conversion change, the change is slower, but the alteration is in exactly the same direction. Conclusion No one recognizes more than I do the sweeping nature of any such observations. No one is more aware than I am of the need to substantiate these observations with clinical material. Someday I may be able to support more Page 29 conclusively my present hypothesis with case material.