Re: Zounds!JT- afterthought

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At 10:12 AM 8/8/99 -0700, you wrote:

> I do think, though, that the target clientele for cognitive therapy

in relation to problem drinking would not be those who are severely

alcohol-dependent, but rather those like Judith whose drinking was

incidental to depression, and for whom a diagnosis of " alcoholism " is

unwarranted.

It's interesting to see this idea in this precise context- this is exactly

what a number of AA persons have said about RR among other alternatives!

" Your approach won't work with the severe ( " real " ) alcoholics " is simply a

variant of the claim " ours is the only approach that works " . That claim

isn't true in the case of AA and it isn't true in the case of RR either.

Joe Berenbaum

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