“A thoroughly readable and rich introduction to…the process of recovery from alcoholism.”
New England Journal of Medicine, review of Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind.
“Useful for physicians who wish to understand alcoholism and the recovery process, and to gain anecdotal evidence of this process, which is presented by using the words of recovering alcoholics…. Can be of great value to those many physicians faced with individual patients who are drinking too much.”
New York State Journal of Medicine, review of Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind.
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Context: The most competent physician of our world advises the patient to listen to an ignorant doctor who the patient thinks is very competent rather than to a competent doctor who the patient thinks is ignorant. He reason is that our imagination works for our good health, and as long as it is supplemented by remedies, it is capable of healing us. But the most powerful remedies are too weak when the imagination does not apply them.