Alcoholism Its Cause and Cure, From the Viewpoint of Science of Mind
By and large, alcoholic addiction is the result of a wrong adjustment to life. It is the result of an emotional unbalance, following one's inability squarely to meet the situations and conditions that arise in personal experience. This inability to meet situations is, of Course, largely unconscious; that is, it is subjective, hidden, and therefore unknown to the conscious faculties.
When this maladjustment to life reaches a point where one becomes a habitual drinker, it is evident that in an unconscious manner he or she is seeking self-destruction! This attempt to avoid the realities of everyday contact with life has reached a point where delusion alone can compensate the imagination for whatever one desires to become or to attain. Unconsciously, alcoholics seek oblivion through self-destruction. Of course, the mental process whereby they arrive at this conclusion is mostly subjective.
