Originally Posted by
brynn 
I think alcoholics love the idea of an alcoholic mind because it justifies continued drinking and continuing relapses. 'Oops....I've got an alcoholic mind...no wonder I drink!' Read that way, Silkworth is actually calling BS on that kind of thinking.
He is. Here is another quote from the same article:
People are inclined to say, "there is something peculiar about alcoholics. They seem to be well, yet at any moment they may turn back to their old ways. You can never be sure."
This is largely twaddle.