This volume is a report of a research project conducted at Winter V. A. Hospital in collaboration with the Menninger Clinic. The purpose was to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of four modes of treatment for alcoholism: Antabuse, Conditioned-Reflex Treatment, Group Hypnotherapy, and Closed Ward Milieu Therapy (activities program and group psychotherapy). An attempt was made to correlate the degree of success of each treatment method with the personality structure of individual patients. The percentages of patients improved in each group were: Antabuse, fifty-three; Conditioned-Reflex Therapy, twenty-four; Group Hypnotherapy, thirty-six, and Milieu Therapy, twenty-six.

Of the forty-seven patients who received Antabuse, twenty-five were improved. None of the categories of characterological diagnosis was large enough to allow significant correlations with the degree of improvement to be made.

Twelve of the fifty patients in the Conditioned-Reflex group were considered improved. The authors were particularly interested in