Talking Oneself Sober:  The Discourse of Alcoholics Anonymous
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Table of Contents

List of Box, Figures, and Tables

xi

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xix

Part I: Finding a Voice

1

Chapter 1: A Meeting Observed

3

Alcoholics Anonymous: ‘Talking the Talk’

3

A Meeting Curtailed

6

Some Preliminary Questions

9

AA as an Organisation

13

Chapter 2: Early AA

17

The Alcoholics Squad of the Oxford Group

24

Quiet Time

27

The Development of the AA Meeting

28

Hospitalisation and Surrender

31

Chapter 3: Letting Go of the Oxford Group

37

What Can Be Changed?

40

Anonymity and ‘Letting Go’

41

Keep It Simple

44

Alcoholism: A Disease?

46

Chapter 4: The Written Texts

51

The Big Book

53