Jim Fadiman || Orchestrating Your Symphony of Selves
The Psychology Podcast
How to Deal With Alcoholics
The worst known method to help Alcoholics is psychotherapy. It has about a 2% success rate and there's like if you look out on the literature nobody knows, okay except You and me are going to now know this which is the person who drinks usually likes drinking Person who has a hangover and is sick and wakes up guilty Does not like drinking Who do you think goes to therapy? Yeah, you don't go to therapy drunk Well, the alcoholic doesn't go to Therapy right right that's exactly right. The wonderful part of if you've ever been to an aa Which is a really very powerful and moving positive experience They've worked it out. So the alcoholic still goes to
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