• Healthy Drinking
• Heavy Drinking
• The Distinction Between Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism
• Early Alcoholism
• The “Middle” Phase
• Writings on Denial
• Psychoanalytic Papers on Drug Abuse
• Denial and Mechanisms of Defense
• How Denial Is Understood by Alcoholism Specialists
• Denial as a Response to Trauma
• Clinical Examples
• Adjunctive Defenses
• Organic Factors in the Psychology of Alcoholism
• Post-Detoxification Dementia
• Premature Aging
• Physical Dependence
• A Clinical Example
• Working with Patients Who Deny Their Alcoholism
• Progression
• Deterioration
• A Clinical Example
• Treatment
• Relapse
• Conclusion

(106 pp.)