Thursday, September 18, 2008

9 types of drinkers

I'll note that the article does not use the the words alcoholic or dependence, so it's intent may be limited to categorizing alcohol abusers, but it feels like the latest iteration of the psychogenic model of addiction.

1 comment:

Dirk Hanson said...

"it feels like the latest iteration of the psychogenic model of addiction."

It sure does. For precisely that reason, when I wrote up the report for my blog post, I did not refer to it specifically as a study of alcoholics and addicts. It's basically a sociological study of British pub behavior, seems to me.