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Alcoholism IV: is There More Than One Type of Alcoholism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

George Winokur ,
John Rimmer  and
Theodore Reich
George Winokur
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
John Rimmer
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Theodore Reich
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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In a previous study we presented preliminary evidence indicating that there may be two types of alcoholism in women (Schuckit, Pitts, Reich, King and Winokur, 1969). These types were called primary alcoholism and affective-disorder-alcoholism. The affective-disorder-alcoholic woman showed evidence that she had had a clear-cut affective episode which was either independent of the alcoholic intake or had occurred prior to the time alcohol had become a problem. Suicide attempts were significantly more frequently seen among the affective-disorder-alcoholic women than among the primary alcoholic women. As regards the family history there was significantly more affective disorder in the families of affective-disorder-alcoholic women than in those of the primary alcoholics. It appeared, then, that there were two types of alcoholism among women hospitalized for alcoholic abuse.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 118 , Issue 546 , May 1971 , pp. 525 - 531
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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