Affiliation with
Alcoholics Anonymous after treatment: A study of its therapeutic effects and mechanisms of action.
Storytelling in
Alcoholics Anonymous is essential reading for anyone interested in a new approach to the stake of a narrator in his or her version of a story.
Indeed, as this study demonstrates, central tenets of AA's 12-step recovery program, or conventional philosophical guides to members' practice, are sometimes transgressed and may manifest themselves in tension with theoretical/ideal
Alcoholics Anonymous. Through CMC it becomes possible to trace resistance within the institution of AA via assessing points of conflict between members' practice and larger AA ideology.
(Compare these nine steps to
Alcoholics Anonymous' twelve steps.) Then there was another Christian-based program, the Emmanuel Movement, which interestingly included some Freudian psychoanalysis in its otherwise spiritual approach.
Sister Molly Monahan, Seeds of Grace: A Nun's Reflections on the Spirituality of
Alcoholics Anonymous. New York: Riverhead, 2001.
Participants started each therapy group with an
Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and closed with discussions of Sexuality and spirituality guided by the author.
This article is written anonymously, in accordance with the traditions of
Alcoholics Anonymous, of which the writer is a member.
The meaning of the term "
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) varies, depending on how one sees oneself in relation to this increasingly popular mutual-help program for alcoholics.
The most well-known programs are
Alcoholics Anonymous and its derivatives (e.g., Narcotics Anonymous, Al-Anon, Nar-Anon, ACOA/ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics), CoDA (Codependents Anonymous)).
From the well-known
Alcoholics Anonymous to the newer groups like Debtors Anonymous, Impotence Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, Depressives Anonymous and Love Addicts Anonymous (sometimes called WWLTM, after Robin Norwood's enormously successful and influential 1985 book, Women Who Love Too Much), these groups-their numbers and the kinds of problems they address-are multiplying wildly.
What
Alcoholics Anonymous can teach the rest of us.
BY EMMA MCMENAMY IRISH chat show host Graham Norton was convinced to go to
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings by Star Wars star Carrie Fisher.