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Behavioural Approaches to Alcoholism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Timothy Stockwell
Affiliation:
Addiçtion Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5

Extract

A Report on the NATO International Conference “Experimental and Behavioural Approaches to Alcholism” held in Bergen, Norway (August 1977).

Behaviour therapists everywhere should rejoice that such a conference received the support of the major military powers of the Western World. This unlikely teaming up with NATO is apparently just one example of the noble organisation's efforts to promote international goodwill. Possibly the ultimate achievement of the conference, however, was the promotion of inter-disciplinary goodwill by successfully gathering together 150 participants from the fields of behavioural psychology, anthropology, sociology, animal research and neuropsychology. The subject matter was wide-ranging, including symposia on the assessment of cognitive functioning in alcoholics, alcohol and crime, cross-cultural studies as well as on the behavioural treatment and analysis of excessive drinking.

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Research Article
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1978

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