The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R. Peabody - 1933 - ODJ

The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R Peabody - January 1933.

BOSTON, MASS: Little, Brown & Co., 1933

This is the Third Printing from January 1933. The book is in excellent condition. The cover shows little wear and a small stain on the spine. There is handwriting inside the front cover and underlining throughout the book. The book is fully intact with no torn or missing pages. The original dust jacket has experienced wear with some tears and tape repairs at the folds for the front and back flaps.

Written by Richard Peabody in the early 1930s, "The Common Sense of Drinking" describes alcoholism and a method for its cure. The roots of Peabody's book came from Boston's Emmanuel Church where clergy and lay practitioners reported success in treating alcoholics. However, Peabody's book is a secular treatment of the problem using psychology. The book was a best seller in the early 1930's and had a major influence on Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson. The book's methods for the "cure" of alchoholism are as relevant today as they were in the 1930's.

When writing the book Alcoholics Anonymous Bill W. borrowed phrases from Peabody's book like as "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic" and "half measures are of no avail." In addition the entire story of "a man of thirty-six years" contained in the chapter More About Alcoholism appears to have been borrowed from Peabody's book.

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