Francis T Chambers Edward A
Strecker
Strecker, Edward A. Edward Adam
1886-1959. Alcohol : One Man's Meat / by Edward A. Strecker and Francis
T. Chambers, Jr. 1938.
Emotional maturity is
the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is
finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.
Edward A. Strecker
Francis T. Chambers, Jr., of Philadelphia, was a follower of Peabody who
in turn went a step further than his teacher. Under the guidance of Dr.
Edward A. Strecker, one of America’s leading psychiatrists, Chambers took
some formal training at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and
entered the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, as associate Therapist,
specializing in alcoholism, but working in conjunction with a team of
medically trained personnel. Alcohol, One Man’s Meat, published in 1938,
is the book written jointly by Strecker and Chambers about their work. Out
of their hands has flowed a small but steady stream of recoveries ever
since.
This book is very rare and hard to find
see other my auctions for Emmanuel Movement author Worcester and His
religion and Medicine and Making Life Better
Emotional maturity is the
ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to
endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.
Edward A. Strecker
Edward A. Strecker, MD, distinguished clinician, Chief Medical Officer at
The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital from 1920-1928, and President of
the American Psychiatric Association in 1943
Emmanuel Movement Psychology of Religous
Experience By Francis L Strickland
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/psych/strecker/bio.htm
Francis T Chambers Speaking:
Dr. Edward A. Strecker, who held the Chair of Psychiatry at the
University of Pennsylvania, collaborated with me in writing ALCOHOL: One
Man’s Meat, published in 1938. This book, because it presented a positive
treatment plan, had the effect of stimulating a more optimistic approach
toward the problem, and we were deluged by requests for help. We did not
have the necessary staff, facilities, nor the economic support that would
have made help available for all. Fortunately, the Alcoholics Anonymous
movement became active at about this time, and has contributed a great
deal of help for many alcoholic addicts who could not have received it in
any other way
Chapters Include
Intro
Part One Psychology of Alcoholism
1 Alcohol Camouflaged narcotic
2. Identification of the Alcoholic
3 Further Identify of the Alcoholic
4 Psych Mechanism of Abnormal Drinking
5 Alcohol Saturated Personallity
6 alclohol and sex
7 Alcoholic Breakdown
Part Two
8 Theory of Treatment
9 Approach to treatment
10 treatment continued
Psych and Nutrition Factors
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Chambers, Francis T. Francis Taylor b. 1897.
The Drinker's Addiction : Its Nature and Practical Treatment / by Francis
T. Chambers, Jr. With a Foreword by Kenneth E. Appel..
WM 274 C444d 1968.
Strecker, Edward A. Edward Adam 1886-1959. Alcohol : One Man's Meat / by
Edward A. Strecker and Francis T. Chambers, Jr. 1938.
Edward A. Strecker, MD, distinguished
clinician, Chief Medical Officer at The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital
from 1920-1928, and President of the American Psychiatric Association in
1943
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/psych/strecker/bio.htm
Francis T Chambers Speaking:
Dr. Edward A. Strecker, who held the Chair of Psychiatry at the
University of Pennsylvania, collaborated with me in writing ALCOHOL: One
Man’s Meat, published in 1938. This book, because it presented a positive
treatment plan, had the effect of stimulating a more optimistic approach
toward the problem, and we were deluged by requests for help. We did not
have the necessary staff, facilities, nor the economic support that would
have made help available for all. Fortunately, the Alcoholics Anonymous
movement became active at about this time, and has contributed a great
deal of help for many alcoholic addicts who could not have received it in
any other way
francis_t_chambers British Journal of
Addiction, Vol. 50, 1953:
Edmund Kelly, whose book The Elimination of the Tramp (1908)
New York, G.P. Putman's Sons, 1908.
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/shaw.html
Josephine Shaw Lowell
Emmanuel Movement Psychology of Religous
ExperiencBy Francis L Strickland
Richard
Peabody The Comman Sense of Drinking 1931
Religion and Medicine:
Emmanual Movement Worcester
From PRIMER ON ALCOHOLISM,
by Marty Mann, 1950. Chapter 7, pages 105-107.
Belief in the
possibility of recovery is growing apace today, but it had a slow and
feeble beginning not so very long ago. In the years following the first
World War, word got around in certain circles (mostly wealthy) that a man
named Courtenay Baylor in Boston was having some success in treating
alcoholics. He was not a doctor, nor a formally trained psychologist: he
was what is called a lay therapist, and he worked in a clinic which was
part of Emmanuel Church, the seat of the Emmanuel Movement. The methods he
used were both psychological and spiritual, combining to re-educate the
alcoholic to a life without alcohol; he described them fully in his book
Remaking a Man, published in 1919. The Emmanuel clinic was for all kinds
of nervous disorders, and did not specialize in alcoholism, so that there
was no great flood of recoveries to startle the world. Nevertheless a
little hope was generated, and some alcoholics got well. A start had been
made.
Richard
Peabody, also of Boston, was the next name to be associated with
recoveries from alcoholism. Himself a product of Baylor’s teaching, he
turned what he had learned wholly onto the problem of alcoholism, and
specialized in the treatment of alcoholics. His book The Common Sense of
Drinking, containing a description of his method, was published in 1931. A
few of his successful cases entered the field as therapists, and by the
mid-thirties still more recoveries were giving the lie to the alleged
hopeless of alcoholism.
Francis T.
Chambers, Jr., of Philadelphia, was a follower of Peabody who in turn went
a step further than his teacher. Under the guidance of Dr. Edward A.
Strecker, one of America’s leading psychiatrists, Chambers took some
formal training at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and
entered the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, as associate Therapist,
specializing in alcoholism, but working in conjunction with a team of
medically trained personnel. Alcohol, One Man’s Meat, published in 1938,
is the book written jointly by Strecker and Chambers about their work. Out
of their hands has flowed a small but steady stream of recoveries ever
since.
The methods
of all the above have been generally lumped together under the heading of
lay therapy, a type of treatment which has had considerable success. One
of its greatest contributions, however, was the proof it furnished that
alcoholics could recover. This fact was a stimulus to other workers and
researchers, and helped provide a nucleus of favorable opinion to
experimenters with other methods. Most important of all, word began to
reach alcoholics that their was not only a name for what ailed them, but
hope that they might recover.
Religion and Medicine
religion_and_medicine #2
Making Life Better Elwood Worcester 1933
Gifford, Sanford.
THE EMMANUEL MOVEMENT :
(BOSTON, 1904-1929) :
THE ORIGINS OF GROUP TREATMENT AND THE ASSAULT ON LAY PSYCHOTHERAPY /
SANFORD GIFFORD.
Harvard University Press, 1997, c1996.
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but I cant want to read this one
Chambers, Francis T. Francis Taylor
b. 1897.
The Drinker's Addiction : Its Nature and Practical Treatment
The Glass Crutch By Jim Bishop
Clinbells book has very good chapter on Emmanuel Movement
Counterfeit Miracles BB Warfield Mind Cure
Emmanuel Movement Psychology of Religous
Experience
Mel B's Book New Wine
has one of the finest chapters on the
lay therapy movement that I am aware of!!
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Emmanuel Movement
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on Jim B's very fine website
many of worcester's books
are reprinted full length online
Edward A. Strecker, MD
-Dynamic Clinician and Teacher
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linician, teacher, researcher, author and
gentlemen - Edward Adam Strecker (1886-1959) lived each role fully
during his active and inspiring career that spanned nearly half a
century.
After graduating from Jefferson Medical
College in 1911, Dr. Strecker joined Pennsylvania Hospital in 1913,
serving as chief medical officer at The Institute of Pennsylvania
Hospital from 1920 to 1928, He continued his association with the
hospital until his death in 1959. Dr. Strecker served as professor
and head of nervous and mental diseases at Jefferson Medical College;
professor and head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and later professor and emeritus
professor and chair of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Medicine. In addition, he was clinical professor
of psychiatry and mental diseases at Yale University and was the first
professor of psychiatry at Seton Hall College of Medicine. He was
president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1943.
He possessed an outstanding ability to
examine patients, investigate etiologic and dynamic factors and make
accurate diagnoses and constructive recommendations for treatment. A
skilled psychotherapist, Dr, Strecker was also a superb teacher, whose
colorful language created an unforgettable clinical picture. He made
psychiatry comprehensible and exciting to medical students,
psychiatric nurses and other mental health professionals, producing a
profound effect on psychiatric teaching in Philadelphia.
Dr. Strecker's main interest in the early
1920's was to develop the psychiatric outpatient department of The
Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. Under his direction,
psychotherapy in that department flourished, and many young
psychiatrists sought to have the privilege of studying therapeutic
approaches from such a highly skilled and innovative clinician. He
also sought to relate psychiatry to the general practice of medicine.
A prolific writer, he authored ten books
and more than 200 papers, on such diverse subjects as alcoholism,
childhood behaviors, encephalitis, head trauma, sex offenders, war
neuroses, and civilization and culture. he authored five editions of
the best-known standard textbook at that time, Fundamentals of
Psychiatry.
Many honors were bestowed on Dr. Strecker,
including four honorary doctoral degrees. He served the nation in
both World War I and World War II, was named a consultant to President
Roosevelt and received a presidential citation from President Truman.
This outstanding physician and human being
serves as a model for psychiatrists and a continuing source of pride
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