... . Alcohol functions by allowing alcoholics to gratify both their oral cravings and their self-destructive tendencies (Cox, 1987). Menninger inferred that alcoholics are self destructive due to their deep-rooted habit of consuming alcohol even regardless of the negative consequences that will occur because of this consumption (Cox, 1987). In general, psychoanalysts believe that the behaviour of alcoholism, like any behaviour ... ...

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