It is noteworthy that three outstanding lay therapists for alcoholics in this country, Courtenay Baylor (who carried on the work at the Emmanuel Church for a time after Worcester’s death), Richard Peabody, and Samuel Crocker, were products of the movement. A lay therapist is a non-medical practitioner who specializes in helping alcoholics professionally. For a description of the method of treatment used by Courtenay Baylor, see Dwight Anderson’s The Place of the Lay Therapist in the Treatment of Alcoholics, QJSA, September, 1944. from Clinebell Alcoholism and pastoral counseling

In 1913, Courtenay Baylor began to work for the Emmanuel church as a specialist in alcoholism; he was probably the first paid alcoholism therapist in this country. Originally an insurance agent he had come to Worcester in 1911 for help with his drinking problem. After a period of sobriety he retired from the business world to become a paid friendly visitor in the church’s Social Services Department. He remained at the Church until Worcester’s retirement in 1929, after which the two practiced together at the Craigie Foundation of Boston. Worcester died in 1940. In 1945, by now an old man, Baylor resumed his old job at the Emmanuel Church. By all accounts he died sober. Baylor described his treatment technique in the book Remaking a Man (1919) as did Dwight Anderson: in his book titled The Other Side of the Bottle (1950) from Marty Mann

Courtenay Baylor must have been a, remarkable man. Constance Worcester and Faye R. spoke of him with great personal affection, even many years later. Peabody dedicated his book to him; Dwight Anderson described him: He had a ‘soothing₇ beautiful voice that lulled you but at the same time gave ‘you confidence. It was a voice you could, trust.

The solution, therefore, was first to promote physical and mental relaxation, and then to examine in a calm frame of mind those false, though plausible attitudes. Ultimately, the patient should learn permanent relaxation by practicing the techniques that he has learned. Anderson described this state as a combination of ‘suppleness, vitality, strength and force -a certain definite intentional, elasticity. Baylor called it peace of mind and stated: Peace of mind will do wonders.

2.9 New Kinetic Ideas To alter public opinion, successful movements condense complex ideas and needs into easily digestible slogans. Once these have achieved broad social acceptance, they may need to be de-constructed for the movement to move toward full maturity. Where such maxims become concretized and reified, the movement sets itself up for a future ideological backlash. A most recent example of this can be seen in how the over-simplification and reification of the disease concept of alcoholism set the stage for a subsequent scientific backlash against this idea. Dwight Anderson and Marty Mann, who defined the core ideas of the modern alcoholism movement in the early 1940s, characterized such ideas as kinetic for their potential ability to move people and incite change within major cultural institutions. Their kinetic ideas focused on the nature of alcoholism (as a treatable disease), the nature of the alcoholic (able to be helped and worthy of being helped), and the physical and social consequences of alcoholism (the status of alcoholism as a major public health problem) (Dwight Anderson, 1942; Mann, 1944). Developmentally, it is time to shift the focus of this enduring advocacy movement from the nature of addiction to the reality of recovery. The kinetic ideas for this new movement need to shift from a focus on pathology to a focus on the potential for recovery at the levels of the person, the family, the neighborhood and the community. This new focus will not be on the problems that alcohol and other drug use inflicts on a community but on the problems recovery removes from the community and what recovery positively contributes to the life of the community. The recovery movement will need to formulate and introduce a new set of kinetic ideas to guide its education and advocacy work. I believe that the following ideas will become central to this new movement.

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Out of the Emmanuel Movement has grown a very definite interest in the alcoholic. Mr. Courtenay Baylor, whose name is familiar to students of the treatment of inebriety, was long associated with Drs. Worcester and McComb. Those who wish to know more about his views and methods may read Dwight Anderson’s article The place of the lay therapist in the treatment of alcoholic. The principle elements in the treatment of alcoholics are catharsis, surrender, and relaxation -and these are carried out or induced through the use of religion.

With Brink Smithers on board, NCADD added a dozen staff members and expanded the board of directors to 60 volunteers who served on seven different committees. A direct service program for New York City began as a pilot project through the national office. The annual meeting, begun in 1952, became a three-day conference attended by as many as a thousand people. The Dwight Anderson Memorial Library, the earliest reference library on alcoholism of its kind, was established and named for NCADD's first board member. In addition to providing consulting services to increasing numbers of companies concerned about the impact of alcoholism on industry, NCADD also forged productive working relationships with many other health, labor, clergy and women's organizations.

There are other less tangible costs. Untreated alcoholism takes twelve years off the life expectancy of its victims and makes their later years a kind of living death by crushing potentialities for constructive relationships. The social costs of this, though impossible to measure, are astronomical. The pain and destructiveness are certainly not limited to the alcoholics themselves. Around each alcoholic there is what has been fittingly termed a circle of tragedy composed of all those whose lives are in close touch with his. The total number of persons involved in these circles has been estimated at twenty million by Marty Mann, director of the National Council on Alcoholism. Obviously the psychological damage to the children of alcoholics is impossible to estimate. Or take the cultural costs. For every artist who appears to be more creative when under the influence there are probably a dozen who drink their poems, their symphonies, their novels, and their plays. In his book The Other Side of the Bottle,^26. Dwight Anderson gives us a poignant example of this facet of the tragedy of alcoholism. He points out that the familiar words All the world is sad and dreary, everywhere I roam, reflect the pathos of the alcoholic’s inner world. Their author died in the alcoholic ward of New York’s Bellevue Hospital at the age of thirty-eight. In his pocket was a torn piece of paper on which were penciled the words for a song, Dear friends and gentle hearts, a lyric which might have been loved like Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair. The story of alcoholism is replete with such might-have-beens.

1942 Dwight Anderson of the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol calls for sustained campaign of public education to alter American's view of alcoholism and the alcoholic

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(by Dwight Anderson Public Relations Bureau, New York,
Medical Society State of New York, 1939)

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The third category of therapies consists of the various forms of psychotherapy. If it is true, as it seems to be, that one underlying cause of much alcoholism is intra-psychic conflict, then psychotherapy should be a useful approach. A small minority of sober alcoholics have found their sobriety via this path alone. (For example, Dwight Anderson gives an autobiographical description of such an experience in the second chapter of The Other Side of the Bottle.) A word of caution may be in order. Nobody knows how many easy fortunes have been made by those exploiters of human misery who peddle some pill or potion which they claim will cure some burdensome ailment. Those afflicted by alcoholism, and their families, have been among those so exploited in the past. Perhaps our society is more sophisticated now and therefore less in need of caution about this danger. But gullibility springs eternal, fed by desperation and the need for hope and help. Therefore, it is still appropriate to emphasize in one’s educational work that there are no quick cures for alcoholism, no pills for papa’s coffee. ^35. The goal of treatment, it should be pointed out, is not cure but arresting the progression of the illness by interrupting the drinking and helping the person to learn a new and more productive way of life sans alcohol. In the current scene, exploitation of alcoholics tends to occur in certain drying out places which offer little or no treatment of the addiction or opportunities for rehabilitative experiences. It is wise to view with some suspicion any institution or treatment program which is secretive about its methods of treatment of which makes what seems like exaggerated claims about the success of its treatment. 35. This phrase is the title of a chapter in Dwight Anderson’s book The Other Side of the Bottle (New York: A. A. Wyn, 1950).