Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement: A Study in Eight Societies

From: Contemporary Drug Problems | Date: April 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

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 literature on Alcoholics Anonymous. In general, those critiques are also valid. Whether friends or critics of the A.A. fellowship and its program, even non-avid students of that literature find in the available studies far more flaws than fruitful aids to understanding.

The criticisms, though ...

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