The Alcoholic Homosexual: A Study of Twelve Male Alcoholics Either Overtly Homosexual or With Pronounced Latent Homosexuality Who First Attended the New York State University Alcohol Clinic, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, From January 13, 1959, to March 24, 1960
Abstract
This writer's interest in the problems of alcoholism and homosexuality and the multiplicity of circumstances and relationships influencing their development, derives from his experience while working at the New York State University Alcohol Clinic, Brooklyn, New York, during the Summer of 1960, and a subsequent second year field placement at the Kings County Hospital Mental Hygiene Clinic, where the case load again included many cases involving the previously- mentioned problems. His interest thus aroused, this writer learned through discussions with various staff members of both clinics that these problems are frequently encountered in the same patient. As the cases were examined, it became evident that homosexuality is rarely, if ever, the reason for referral to the clinic, but rather is discovered during the course of treatment. This writer decided to undertake this study as a research project after preliminary surveys of case material in the files of the Alcohol Clinic indicated the presence of an ample amount of material which might be utilized in an investigation of the etiology of both problems and their relationship to one another.
Subject Area
Clinical psychology|LGBTQ studies|Social work
Recommended Citation
Dolson, James Vincent, "The Alcoholic Homosexual: A Study of Twelve Male Alcoholics Either Overtly Homosexual or With Pronounced Latent Homosexuality Who First Attended the New York State University Alcohol Clinic, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, From January 13, 1959, to March 24, 1960" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097127.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097127
