Chapter 5. “A Special Masculine Neurosis”: Psychiatrists Look at Alcoholism

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. The Female Inebriate in the Temperance Paradigm 28
5. Chapter 2. “Lit Ladies”: Women’s Drinking during the Progressive Era and Prohibition 49
6. Chapter 3. “More to Overcome than the Men”: Women in Alcoholics Anonymous 75
7. Chapter 4. Defining a Disease: Gender, Stigma, and the Modern Alcoholism Movement 98
8. Chapter 5. “A Special Masculine Neurosis”: Psychiatrists Look at Alcoholism 119
9. Chapter 6. “The Doctor Didn’t Want to Take an Alcoholic”: The Challenge of Medicalization at Midcentury 141
10. Epilogue 164
11. Acknowledgments 177
12. Notes 179
13. Bibliography 215
14. Index 231