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Part I: Assessment Profiles of Drinking Patterns Before and After Outpatient Treatment for Alcohol Abuse by Stephen A. Maisto, Linda C. Sobell, Mark B. Sobell, Hau Lei, and Kathy Sykora Self-Regulatory Failure by Daniel S. Kirschenbaum Self-efficacy and the Prevention of Alcoholic Relapse: Initial ...

Part I: Assessment Profiles of Drinking Patterns Before and After Outpatient Treatment for Alcohol Abuse by Stephen A. Maisto, Linda C. Sobell, Mark B. Sobell, Hau Lei, and Kathy Sykora Self-Regulatory Failure by Daniel S. Kirschenbaum Self-efficacy and the Prevention of Alcoholic Relapse: Initial Findings from a Treatment Trial by Helen M. Annis and Christine S. Davis Family-wide Distress in Bulimia by Laura Lynn Humphrey Part II: Treatment Delaying Smoking Relapse with Extended Treatment by Thomas H. Brandon, Diane C. Zelman, and Timothy B. Baker Development and Diffusion of a Skills-Training Intervention by Sharon M. Hall, James L. Sorensen, and Peter C. Loeb Alcohol Aversion Theraphy: Relationship Between Strength of Aversion and Abstinence by Dale S. Cannon, Timothy B. Baker, Antonio Gino, and Peter E. Nathan The Role of Aversion and Counseling Strategies in Treatments for Cigarette Smoking by Stephen T. Tiffany and Timothy B. Baker

In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism

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In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism.

After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, recreational drinking became increasingly accepted among white, suburban, middle-class men and women. But excessive or habitual drinking plagued many families. How did people view the "problem drinkers" in their midst? How did husbands and wives learn to cope within an "alcoholic marriage?" And how was drinking linked to broader social concerns during the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War era?

By the 1950s, Rotskoff explains, mental health experts, movie producers, and members of self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon helped bring about a shift in the public perception of alcoholism from "sin" to "sickness." Yet alcoholism was also viewed as a family problem that expressed gender-role failure for both women and men. On the silver screen (in movies such as "The Lost Weekend and "The Best Years of Our Lives) and on the printed page (in stories by writers such as John Cheever), in hospitals and at Twelve Step meetings, chronic drunkenness became one of the most pressing public health issues of the day.

Based on an ethnographic study spanning four years, George H. Jensen's Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis calls upon Bakhtinian theory to analyze storytelling in AA.

Jensen introduces his study with an analysis of "Bill W.'s Story" as it appears in the first chapter of AA's ...

Based on an ethnographic study spanning four years, George H. Jensen's Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis calls upon Bakhtinian theory to analyze storytelling in AA.

Jensen introduces his study with an analysis of "Bill W.'s Story" as it appears in the first chapter of AA's central text, Alcoholics Anonymous. Drawing on Walter Ong's work on orality and literacy, he argues that "Bill W.'s Story" as it appears in print cannot fully capture the oral tradition of storytelling as it occurs in AA meetings.

Jensen discusses storytelling as practiced by the Washingtonians, a temperance organization much like AA. He also discusses the influence of the spiritual program of the Oxford Group (an international and interdenominational religious movement seeking to recapture the enthusiasm and dedication of first-century Christianity) on the development of AA's Twelve Steps.

Jensen introduces Bakhtin's theory of the relationship between the author and the hero of a text, using Lillian Roth's,autobiographies as counterexamples of AA talks. He explains how AA meetings provide an example of what Bakhtin meant by carnival, a process through which humor, irony, and parody supply a mechanism for questioning commonly held beliefs. AA talks, Jensen argues, are fragmented, yet achieve coherence through the interweaving of two important chronotopes. Finally, using Bakhtin's discussion of heroes in autobiography, Jensen discusses the kinds of heroes one typically finds in AA talks.