Download or read book Rum Maniacs written by Matthew Warner Osborn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This important study explores the medicalization of alcohol abuse in the 19th century US” and its influence on American literature and popular culture (Choice). In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn examines the rise of pathological drinking as a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in 19th century America. At the heart of that story is the disease that afflicted Edgar Allen Poe: delirium tremens. Poe’s alcohol addiction was so severe that it gave him hallucinations, such as his vivid recollection of standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate his mother’s body—an event that never happened. First described in 1813, delirium tremens and its characteristic hallucinations inspired sweeping changes in how the medical profession saw and treated the problems of alcohol abuse. Based on new theories of pathological anatomy, human physiology, and mental illness, the new diagnosis established the popular belief that habitual drinking could become a psychological and physiological disease. By midcentury, delirium tremens had inspired a wide range of popular theater, poetry, fiction, and illustration. This romantic fascination endured into the twentieth century, most notably in the classic Disney cartoon Dumbo, in which a pink pachyderm marching band haunts a drunken young elephant. Rum Maniacs reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.
Download or read book The Use and Effect of Alcohol in Relation to the Alcoholic Psychoses written by Horatio Milo Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Psychology of Alcoholism written by George Barton Cutten and published by London : Walter Scott Publishing Company. This book was released on 1907 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirty Rooms to Hide in written by Luke Sullivan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Luke Longstreet Sullivan has a simple way of describing his new memoir: “It's like The Shining . . . only funnier.” And as this astonishing account reveals, the comment is accurate. Thirty Rooms to Hide In tells the story of Sullivan's father and his descent from being one of the world's top orthopedic surgeons at the Mayo Clinic to a man who is increasingly abusive, alcoholic, and insane, ultimately dying alone on the floor of a Georgia motel. For his wife and six sons, the years prior to his death were years of turmoil, anger, and family dysfunction; but somehow, they were also a time of real happiness for Sullivan and his five brothers, full of dark humor and much laughter. Through the 1950s and 1960s, the six brothers had a wildly fun and thoroughly dysfunctional childhood living in a forbidding thirty-room mansion, known as the Millstone, on the outskirts of Rochester, Minnesota. The many rooms of the immense home, as well as their mother's loving protection, allowed the Sullivan brothers to grow up as normal, mischievous boys. Against a backdrop of the times—the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, fallout shelters, JFK's assassination, and the Beatles—the cracks in their home life and their father's psyche continue to widen. When their mother decides to leave the Millstone and move the family across town, the Sullivan boys are able to find solace in each other and in rock 'n' roll. As Thirty Rooms to Hide In follows the story of the Sullivan family—at times grim, at others poignant—there is a wonderful, dark humor that lifts the narrative. Tragic, funny, and powerfully evocative of the 1950s and 1960s, Thirty Rooms to Hide In is a tale of public success and private dysfunction, personal and familial resilience, and the strange power of humor to give refuge when it is needed most, even if it can't always provide the answers.
Download or read book The Cure of alcoholism written by Austin O'Malley and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comfortably Insane A Journey From The Hell Of Alcoholism To A Healthy Productive Life written by Neal Linares and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal Linares ping-ponged from the US to El Salvador during his growing up years, causing him to struggle with feeling a sense of belonging and the need to escape life. He found the solution in a liquor bottle. He drank himself out of military school. He drank himself out of relationships. He drank himself into insanity. Falling deeper and deeper, he clung to his skewed perspective of life: it was not his fault and he was not powerless against alcohol. No, he was in control! Oh, he gave sanity a shot. He really did. For eight years he played the part of the perfect husband, perfect worker, and perfect churchgoer. But it just didn't seem . . . normal. Sanity didn't suit him. So he fell back into the comfortable arms of insanity. Then after spiraling to the bottom of the barrel, he found Santa. Or was it the lights of a cop car? Finding his second wife gone and feeling alone as he has always felt, he began an incredible journey of learning to find comfort in sanity. One day at a time. Comfortably Insane is about more than just overcoming addiction. It is about recognizing your flaws, taking ownership of them, recognizing that change is within you, and making the daily choice to do better and be better.
Download or read book Alcoholic Insanity written by Lewis D. Mason and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Habitual Drunkenness and Insane Drunkards written by Sir John Charles Bucknill and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1878 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alcoholic Insanity Classic Reprint written by Lewis D. Mason and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Alcoholic Insanity The following case occurred in my experience. The person was a United States Contractor and at times re ceived large sums of money from the government. He was an occasional inebriate; during the period of his debauches, he was very violent, dangerous to his wife and those about him, making assaults on every one. After the paroxysms of mania passed off, he was repentant, extremely grieved, and did all in his power to amend the evil he had done. After one of his fits of intemperance, in a mood of repentance, he sought to conciliate his wife by the ex penditure of a large sum of money. He rented a villa on the Hudson, furnished it extravagantly, bought horses and carriages, and employed a retinue of servants, and in every way strove to make restitution for his past misdeeds. Some time after this - though not a lengthy period - he received a large sum of money from the government, and again went on one of his debauches, returning home a mad man. He procured an ax his wife fled at his approach and locked herself in a room at the top of the house; the servants escaped to a neighbor's. The maniac had full control of the premises, and proceeded to demolish the furniture. A grand Steinway piano was reduced to splinters, and ruin spread in every direction as his insane fury dictated. Fortunately, he met no one, or homicide would most certainly have been added to his acts of destruc tion. His wife eventually procured a divorce, and he died in an asylum. His son became an inebriate, and coming under my care, i was enabled to obtain the family history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The American Journal of Insanity written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews".
Download or read book The Cure of Alcoholism written by Austin O'Malley and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Alcoholic Insanity written by Russell Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sober and Staying That Way written by Susan Powter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-03-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete lifesaving program for ending the perils and anguish of addiction to alcohol, from one of America's most inspirational speakers--the bestselling author of "Stop the Insanity!" Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Last Call written by Jack H. Hedblom and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I knew about drunk, but did not know anything about living sober. I hadn’t really been sober for fifteen years. It wasn’t enough that I stopped drinking. I had to learn how to live.” The journey from alcoholic insanity to sobriety—and the pivotal role of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in navigating that transition—is the focus of Last Call. Using powerful first-person narratives like the one above (composites of many anonymous speakers), psychotherapist Jack H. Hedblom provides compelling insights into the minds and hearts of addicted drinkers, from bizarre behavior and denial to the moment of “hitting bottom” and seeking change. Hedblom covers the process of getting sober, from diagnosis to detox to sobriety. He focuses on the challenge of learning to live without drinking—a long-term goal, Hedblom asserts, that is best achieved by regular participation in AA. Hedblom’s vivid descriptions reveal AA meetings as gatherings of fellowship, compassion, tears, and laughter. In relating the history of the organization, he describes the role of sponsors, elaborates on the Twelve Steps and the Promises, emphasizes the importance of spiritual development in recovery, and refutes the common misconceptions that equate spirituality with organized religion. Through the stories of people who have escaped the tyranny of alcoholism with the help of AA, Hedblom shows that the road to recovery is a journey of self-discovery, change, and hope.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Kings Park State Hospital at Kings Park to the State Commission in Lunacy for the Year Ending written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
