ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of an addicted persons who have forgotten how to deal with everyday life without the drug and they have started learning how to cope. The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) does not only offer practical advice about how to manage the seductions of alcohol, but also offers the experience of being understood and valued by others. The phenomenon of the wounded healer has appeared in different cultures from the earliest times. The chapter presents a case of Linda who presented her first months in AA. Linda does not blame her parents for her drinking, but it seems likely that she found the disinhibiting effect of alcohol helped her in the situations she found daunting. Her description of how she is able to hoik herself out of depression shows that she has become able to tolerate frustration, whereas previously drinking was an attempt to repair intolerable frustration.
