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Table of Contents
List of Box, Figures, and Tables |
Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Part I: Finding a Voice |
Chapter 1: A Meeting Observed |
Alcoholics Anonymous: ‘Talking the Talk’ |
A Meeting Curtailed |
Some Preliminary Questions |
AA as an Organisation |
Chapter 2: Early AA |
The Alcoholics Squad of the Oxford Group |
Quiet Time |
The Development of the AA Meeting |
Hospitalisation and Surrender |
Chapter 3: Letting Go of the Oxford Group |
What Can Be Changed? |
Anonymity and ‘Letting Go’ |
Keep It Simple |
Alcoholism: A Disease? |
Chapter 4: The Written Texts |
The Big Book |