European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes tuesday april 25, 1978 modern living Jean Kirkpatrick helping female drinkers. An alternative to a by Richard Hughes United press International bout four years ago or. Jean Kirkpatrick saw a television news clip about an illiterate old Man who worked a lifetime to became the world Best maker of bricks. K. " on the other hand had tried my hand at � Hundred things and never mastered any simply be ii?�? came easily for me she thought. What was i an expert in drinking. Just drinking. Tit Light l Culdon 1 top Asa 1 he disgust with because All i knew was 27 years of drinking. It my m ult stuck Wilh Chr ugh Are for women. Out of 574 federally funded programs there Are now Only 17 for women. It went up three Las year. I Don t feel Competition with a at All. There Are four million female alcoholics left Over with no program to go around. I would like to see u possible women in Bot programs. In our membership a lot of women do use both pro Grams and there s a Large part of our membership who went to a and it did t work for them. She added that a Large portion it Tut by women with five six seven year of m they look upon this As an addition to Oral of their recovery process. A we Are not really saying the Heck she said. It mean within our grown i women we Are responsible for each bore Uke a women for sobriety groups to share their expert Estes seek gunship and support la commeal Kirkpatrick encourages women to i alcoholic but whose lives have been i drinking. A great thing about it that women Are coming in at a much i drinking she said. Kirkpatrick told of the personal Yean of alcoholic drinking and her through a. In the beginning when i was first i Tremley uncomfortable with the word i were times i would not speak at Melon not get myself to say i am an ales that Over into women for sobriety so i to stumble Over that so they Don t hang because of struggling with that  " she also found that she could not Tatt step of making a fearless and Seard herself although she said her Book is count. Going Back Over things that i bad i and sifting through them was a Cathalu hand t counted on she said. I did not j first part of it. It was a real so quickly. I think it went of Kutty i get away from  the underpinning of women far i Point acceptance program women bold their Selm Nuge. The whole of the 13 statements Arete negativism which most alcoholic said. In the More than two years since i was begun in july 1975, with one Chi a. Kirkpatrick s Home town it h. Tio wide organization with More than approximately 2,000 members. Since Kirkpatrick s Book was Sirotk dilation s a Cokertown office has reel As Iso letters a Day and 10-1s Bobeen established. It is working and we Are getting i Patrick said of the method she used drinking pattern and to find As i happiness emotional and spiritual i i did t know at first tit Twood it worked for me and now the remits come Back that it can work for  Kirkpatrick now 55. Recalls this moment in a boo turnabout help Jot a new life which chronicles her a co Nollsh and a program of recovery through  sobriety an organization she founded for female alcoholics. Kirk Patrick who gained her doctorate in sociology after she stopped drinking says she began women for sobriety to provide an alternative to alcoholics Anonymous which she tried without Sac Celt. I think the self image of women alcoholics is the main thrust of the whole thing the reason Why women need a separate organization she said in an interview. A major difference Between female and male alcoholics she said is that women have Strong feelings of guilt while men feel remorse but rarely guilt in the Yean i was in a and Beard men alcoholics 1 rarely heard a Man talk about guilt. I Don t think it is a Large problem with the majority. Whereas with women would put it As High As so  Kirkpatrick said in an interview that in the begin Ning the a did t even want women in. Even today a membership is Only 31 percent   agreed the number of women in a particularly in Urban areas is growing because alcoholics everywhere and most especially women Are coming  but she said discrimination still exists against women alcoholics in Many areas of the nation and in government sponsored recovery programs. According Kirkpatrick there an u million Alco Souci to the United Stales and Only about 1 million Are in recovery programs. Womac comprise about half the total bomber of alcoholic Bat an Short changed on the available programs of recovery she out of 600 Halfway houses in the United states Only 30 "0mterror of Willic by Richard Saltus associated press i j thousands of Ameri cans suffer from a Peculiar secret disease an inexplicable terror of Public places that keep them virtual prisoners in their Homes. The syndrome is called agora phobia and or. Arthur Hardy estimates that As Many As 1 in 100 people May be materially at . The victims stories Are strik ugly alike the sudden Onset of panic in a supermarket or City Street the fear that they Are going insane the shrinking of the boundaries of their Safe world until in some cases their Home or even a closet becomes Aprison. One Day i was going Christmas shopping and it  said a North Hollywood woman woo has been almost totally housebound for seven years. I can visit my neighbor three of Yabut i won t go to the end of the Block i d have a i to the last six months i be been two places my lawyer s she is getting divorced a freon pm Ronse Quence and my Mother  a Many Flora phones she finds supermarkets with their Unes. Turnstiles and crowds of Fagons for a fear of being capped. And driving once a c. Now simply in it is like a secret disease that has gone for a Long time without being  said hard a psychiatrist who founded Terra p inc. A corporation with a dozen centers for treating the problem. Agoraphobia is one of Many recognized  irrational ears that Are usually Mph i buried anxieties i  Hardy says be bait Many people to environment in a criticized and emotions stifled Andl often by parents who i themselves. The Viutti excessively Cone others opinions Oft in some eases thai so pervasive that Tunget better is weakens. It s been so Many r not sure if i want to i said the Norta woman. It s like Blind i Don t know l missing by not going out Hardy s treatment Standard behaviour techniques such � helping the person to i into the world Little by i treating when the passel then going Forward a 4