Forty-four women were studied, thirty-four of them alcoholics and ten of them nonalcoholic wives of alcoholic husbands. Some measures used in this study were the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, the 'D' scale of the MMPI, and the California Personality Inventory. Over fifty per cent of the alcoholic women, sixty-seven per cent of the menstruating women, and forty-six per cent of the nonmenstruating women related their drinking to their menstrual cycles and, overwhelmingly, to the premenstruum as a key time.