Podcasts that mention 📚 Disease Concept of Alcoholism by E. M. Jellinek

Emelick, he was at at Stanford for a bit, the end of his career. and he had done a lot of research on alcoholism and I wrote a book in the ' 50s or 60s called the disease concept of alcoholism and out of that book there was a curve and you can look this up it's called the gel curve I don't think he actually created the curve it was credited towards him in fact I think he even uh kind of dissociated himself from it but it came out of his works and it it starts off with at the top and it's for alcoholism like where people start drinking and it's in the um crucial phase as they start drinking more.

The guest mentions a book from the 1950s or 60s about the disease concept of alcoholism, linking it to research and the Jellinek curve.

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