Identify and describe the phases of alcoholism as identified by Jellinek.

What will be an ideal response?


Pre-alcoholic phase – involves occasional relief drinking as a means of alleviating tension but over time, greater amounts of alcohol are needed to generate the desired effect; intermediate phase – drinking is no longer simply a sense of relief but is sought as a drug, resulting in secretive drinking including occasional blackouts or amnesia, faking alibis, and a compulsion to drink, accompanied by a loss of control; crucial phase – loss of control becomes more complete as the drinker is no longer able to maintain a resolution not to drink, isolation from others increases as life beccomes alcohol-centered; final/bottom phase – drinker’s extensive emotional disorganization including ethical deterioration, impaired thinking, and obsessive drinking characterize the bottomed-out chronic alcoholic

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