> Just to be clear and to set the record straight, I feel it's important
that
> people realize that most researchers in addiction science have rejected
the
> old idea that alcoholism is a psychological problem of character or lack
of
> will-power, in favor of the biogenetic hypothesis that alcoholism is a
> medical disease with biological and genetic causes. Alcoholism is clearly
> inheritable in humans, and strains of rats have been bred that prefer
> alcoholic water over plain water. Obviously questions of character and
> will-power do not apply to rats.

psychological or physiological are the 2 faces of  the same coin , there is
no separation .
if you work on one aspect you work on the other ,inseparable,  but  in a
split mind both aspects can contradict each over. in that case working on
the spiritual will reconcile and harmonise behaviors
Alcoholic anonymous have shown the power of working psychologically and
spiritually and often via this route change at the physical level can
happens .
as peoples like me who started with the physical and end up realising it was
all about spirituality.

the most successfulls are the ones who have been working on all fronts.
jean-claude