Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Segal, Gabriel

Titel

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS “SPIRITUALITY” AND LONG-TERM SOBRIETY MAINTENANCE AS A TOPIC FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY

Ist Teil von

• Behavioural brain research, 2020-07, Vol.389, p.112645-112645, Article 112645

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Access via ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The foundational literature of Alcoholics Anonymous provides a good example of how ideas from different intellectual paradigms can be woven together to enhance understanding of addiction and recovery. A detailed hypothesis about how the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous work as a program of emotion management is presented. The hypothesis assigns a central role to a secular interpretation of spirituality, consistent with naturalism. Clinical research which appears to indicate that spirituality is not the chief mechanism of recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous is critiqued. Interdisciplinary research is required, if the extent and nature of the efficacy of AA’s 12 steps are to be understood.