What is a dry alcoholic? An ex-alcoholic who still has the personality that leads him to drink but who no longer drinks. Actually there are alcoholic personalities who have never taken a drink and there are people with criminal proclivities who are not criminals, girls with promiscuous phantasies who have not been promiscuous and homosexuals who have never had a homosexual experi-

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ence. These people have escaped social deviation by sublimation and reaction formation and by other defense mechanisms.

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