Dr. Hotta
| Speaker | Dr. Hotta |
| Event | AA Meeting — Nicotinic Acid / Vitamin B-3 |
| Location | Unknown |
| Year | 1966 |
| Era | Classic Era |
| Fellowship | AA |
| Duration | 56:55 |
| RS Number | RS-G065 |
Transcript
I'm an alcoholic. I'm also a psychiatrist, but don't lull either one of them against me. I'm an alcoholic who became a psychiatrist rather than vice versa in the defense of psychiatry. I have to defend psychiatry on every turn. I mean, we get picked to death. But God blessed the boy last night who said that, he said psychiatry never did him any good, but then he turned around and he said, of course I didn't do psychiatry any good either, and this is a lot of truth. We have a couple of communications here from, if I haven't lost them all, philosophy, and we must be truthful and honest. However, sometimes we can be honest in a kinder sort of way. It's like the dear lady that was having some telephone poles were being put up in her alley right past her house, and the workmen on the telephone linemen that were putting up the thing weren't too cultured group, as most of you know. She was objecting a little to their language, and she called the telephone company and asked for the manager, and she complained to the manager about this language that the men were using putting up these poles and things, and he said, well, lady, we understand this is not the best in the world. They're not too cultured a group, and they tend to call a spade a spade, you know. And you must overlook it. She said, well, I don't care if they call a spade a spade, but when they call a spade the goddamn shovel, she says, I don't like it. I wouldn't call upon to give a report to the steering committee, but I'm going to anyway. Don't you think this is a good time, Luke? It won't take but a minute about something that is quite novel, unusual, or at least to most of us. Many of us have been circularized with some of the information on what you're going to hear about this afternoon with varying degrees of skepticism, belief, and doubt because we were not too sure just what was going on. This is our opportunity to hear about it. This has a very wide application, what you're hearing about this afternoon. It isn't limited just to alcoholism, but in speaking to or talking to Dr. Hoffer last night, he assured me that he was going…
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