Phases of alcohol addiction

EM Jellinek - Quarterly journal of studies on alcohol, 1952 - jsad.com
In 1946 EM Jellinek, on the basis of a questionnaire study of members of Alcoholics
Anonymous, first formulated his concept of phases in the drinking history of alcoholics. With
the original publication1 of this concept Jellinek outlined a more detailed questionnaire,
which in the intervening years has been administered to some 2,000 alcoholics. The
elaboration of the phases concept resulting from analysis of these additional materials has
been presented by Jellinek in lectures at the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies (July …