Marty Mann (1904-1980) was the first woman in Alcoholics Anonymous & author of the chapter "Women Suffer Too"in the 2nd and 3rd Editions of the Big Book of AA. In part, because of her life work, the consensus developed that alcoholism was less of a moral issue and more of a health issue (The disease model). She was from an upper middle class family in Chicago. She married and became an alcoholic. In 1939 she saw a psychiatrist, Dr. Harry Tiebout, … Wikipedia
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