71) says ‘the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each AA from a clinical perspectiveĪA is among the best studied and most effective treatments for addiction, ,, , ]. He accepts that he cannot deal with these problems alone.Īccording to (p.15) AA’s twelve steps are a group of spiritual principles. A accepts that if he has a drink, the chances are he will end up drinking far more than he wanted to or intended to when he started out and that resolutions never to drink again are very likely to fail. This step summarises the ideas of sensitization and the obsessions. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable
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When properly understood and tweaked, these concepts limn the phenomena that need to be understood in a full account of addiction. In alcoholism is said to consist in a ‘physical allergy’ and a ‘mental obsession’ and its treatment centers on ‘spiritual malady’. Section snippets The AA conception of addiction AA provides an excellent example of how ideas from different areas can be fruitfully woven together in the theory of the nature of addiction and recovery. Jim Burwell, one of the early members, recounts that the original AAs took ideas “from everybody we could think of and tried to use anything we thought would be useful to help the … drunk”. 26), doctor of medicine William Silkworth ( xxv-i), philosopher and psychologist William James, psychotherapist, William Peabody, philosopher Lewis Browne, spiritual leader Emmett Fox and the (Christian) Oxford Group ( p. In section 5, I will return to the editors’ original questions.ĪA itself emerged from different intellectual disciplines drawing its principal ideas from psychoanalyst Carl Jung ( p. In section 4 I will look at AA ‘spirituality’ and recovery from a clinical perspective. In section 3 I will offer a hypothesis about how AA’s twelve steps provide a ‘spiritual’ mechanism of recovery.
In section 2 I will outline the AA conception and propose that it specifies the non-eliminable levels of addiction. In section 1 I will outline the AA conception and propose that it specifies the non-eliminable levels of addiction. I believe that the conception of alcoholism and how it should be treated that can be found in the foundational texts of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) provides an excellent framework for addressing those questions.
Contributors to this issue were invited to ‘tackle the following pressing questions’: ‘What are the non-eliminable levels and/or dimensions of addiction?’ ‘Can these different levels be integrated into a properly comprehensive, integrated program of inquiry?’ ‘If so, what will be the best way to achieve this integration?’ ‘What will be the unique expected benefits of successfully achieving this integration?’
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