[The alcohol-anxiety relationship (author's transl)]

Those who have helped an alcoholic patient to evade the torturing effects of this favourite drug and who know what role alcoholic drinks have been paying in his psychological profile and body functions understand his anxiety when faced with a world from which he had tried to escape. Weaning. therefore, can only be successful it therapeutist and patient alike are fully aware of these problems, and the use of tranquillizers in this difficult period of the patient's life is virtually compulsory.