Case Study: An Alcoholic Mother

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Case Study: Alcoholism

Client's Personal & Family History

The Client, Jane C. is a mother of 6 children, 4 girls and two boys. She has lived a complex life that has affected the way she deals with the emotional challenges of her reality and to cope, she turned time and again to alcohol. She lived a very privileged life as a child. Her father owned a real estate business and her mother looked after her and her 2 sisters in relative comfort - an estate with acres of land in the country. She was, for all intents and purposes, brought up in an upper class setting. She went to the best schools, had the best toys and things, enjoyed luxuriant vacations abroad and never wanted for anything. Even when Jane's father died when she was only a teen, she and her sisters were left with a sizable inheritance which should, in paper, support her for the rest of her life. Her mother however is a weak-willed personality and without her father, her mother depended only in the income their other property brings from rent and trade. While it was sizable she and her children continued to live an extravagant life without the benefit of regular income which soon saw her mother sell off their properties. Jane went to university and became attracted to the 'hippie' lifestyle of the 70's where she met her first husband, John C. Living off Jane's inheritance, they stopped their studies and lived a 'free life' in her mother's home by putting up wigwams in the land. She was 21 when she got married and this was contrary to her mother's wishes. 8 years later, she and John had 5 children, 4 girls and a boy the eldest of which was 7 and the youngest, a girl, was 2.

One unfortunate evening, John died in a car accident which left Jane's a widow at 29. Unable to cope, she turned to the bottle. She refused to leave their wigwam and for days, her children struggled to feed and clean themselves. Under the influence, she decided to 'end it all' to follow her husband. She packed all her kids in a car and attempted to kill them all in a group suicide. Fortunately, she was too drunk to go through it successfully and since it was winter, her car just rolled off into a ditch. She was soon ...