The author has studied the clin ical features， drinking patterns, social and family backgrounds of 100 alcoholic patients, who were admitted to the neuropsychiatric wards of kyungpook National University Hospital and Taegu Dongsan presbyterian Hospital during the period of January 1967 to August 1978. The control group for this studyconsisted of patients with functional psychosis. The results were as follows： The admission rate of alcoholic patients was 3. 1% of all admissions. Most of the alcoholics (70%) fell into the 33 to 40 year old age group. The ratio of alcoholism is 11% to 23%. Alcoholic psychotics showed the highest rate of delirium tremens (50%). There was a tendency for the alcoholics to come from bigger cities as compared with alcoholic psychotics. The socioeconomic levels of alcoholic psychotics was lower than that of the alcoholism. The drinking history showed that the majority of them began drinking in the third decade and drank over ten years. Seventy percent of them had a history of heavy drinking for more than one year. Seventy three percent of the patients drank almost everyday. The most common choice of the liquor was a distilled one ( “So-Ju”). The interpersonal relationships of the alcoholics were passive, submissive and relatively cooperative while sober. In the drunken state, however, they were found to be aggressive and destructive Marital and familicts conflicts proved to be the most common pripitating factors (47%). Parental deprivation before puberty wad more prevalent in alcoholic psychotics than in alcoholism. Alcoholic parents w ere found mare in alcoholic patients than in functional psychotics. In prem orbid personality, there was no significant differences between alcoholic patients and functional psychotics. As stated above, there were some rather significant differences of familial and social backgrounds between alcoholism and alcoholic psychotics than between alcoholic psychotics and functional psychotics.
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