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Alcoholics Anonymous discourse and members' resistance in a virtual community: Exploring tensions between theory and practice
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Alcoholics Anonymous has greatly informed the individual, social, and political landscape of the contemporary self-help or mutual-aid movement. There has emerged, in turn, a vast, though largely uncritical, body of research examining AA and its 12-step recovery model. A close look inside a virtual AA community, however, reveals that not all AA members embrace formal AA discourse. Through an examination of dialogue and discourse on a public Usenet newsgroup, this study demonstrates that in con...
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Alcoholics Anonymous discourse and members' resistance in a virtual community: Exploring tensions between theory and practice
Contemporary Drug Problems
; ... members' inversion of AA discourse. Quotes are not acknowledged by actual posting date, as many postings are archived by Deja News (now Google) and would be rendered more easily identifiable. All posters from whom text has been drawn have been given a pseudonym ...
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Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement: A Study in Eight Societies
Contemporary Drug Problems
; Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement: A Study in Eight Societies, by Klaus Makela et al. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), 297 pp. plus personal name and subject indices, cloth $46.00, paper $14.95. Many, loud and long are the complaints of those who peruse the scholarly
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(book reviews)
Journal of Studies on Alcohol
; An increasing literature suggests that researchers should approach Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) not as an alternative to treatment but as a form of community, a type of new social movement. This shift of perspective from the psychological/psychiatric to the anthropological/sociological achieves a kind
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Golden Age: AA celebrates 60 sober years.(Alcoholics Anonymous)
Insight on the News
; Across town and around the globe, Alcoholics Anonymous members - from the erudite to the humble - sober up to embrace life and help one another one day at a time. There is no initiation. There are n dues or fees. There are no rules or regulations. Every religion is represented, all races and
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Making meaning of Alcoholics Anonymous for social workers: myths, metaphors, and realities.
Social Work
; ... offered is too limited, such as the statement in the recent NASW News article (Landers, 1996) that the traditional Alcoholics Anonymous ... Landers, S. (1996, May). Addiction treatment: What women need. NASW News, p. 3. Lundy, C. (1985). Social role enactment and the onset ...
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Alcoholics Anonymous Losing a Step, Critics Say // Spiritual Loss Blamed for Perceived Drop in Success
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... who have already been in recovery for five or 10 years. He no longer sees much vigorous work on the 12th step: spreading the news of spiritual awakening and recovery to other alcoholics. "If they are not carrying the message now, they must not have received ...
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These people are all members of a religious cult At least that's the suggestion of the American judge who ruled that Alcoholics Anonymous is `a religion'. So are addicts merely swapping one dependency for another?
The Independent - London
; What do these celebrities have in common? They are, or have at one time been, a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is an organisation that is internationally recognised for its altruistic benevolence, a charity that helps thousands to conquer their alcoholism and asks for nothing in return. It is
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County man played role in Alcoholics Anonymous
The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.
; LOMA LINDA - Few people have managed to turn their lives around so completely as did Alfred Martin, who, through 30 years with Alcoholics Anonymous, helped others get the same opportunities he received. ''He said his main object in life was to make sure that every alcoholic had as good of a break
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Exploring the Spiritual Experience in the 12-step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous Spiritus Contra Spiritum.(Book Review)
Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education
; Exploring the spiritual experience in the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous Spiritus contra spiritum by Sandoz, J. (2004) Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press. [Hardbound, ISBN# 0-7734-6465-4]. Since the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, there have been several publications written on
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Gender aspects of affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous after treatment
Contemporary Drug Problems
; Studies incorporating gender aspects of post-treatment affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) have often focused on meeting attendance, disregarding behavioral indicators of affiliation. This article describes meeting attendance and affiliative behaviors in a Swedish treatment sample of 112 men
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