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Bibliography


AA HISTORY AND IDEOLOGY

Alexander, Jack. "Alcoholics Anonymous: Freed Slaves of Drink, Now They Free Others." Saturday Evening Post, March 1, 1941.

Bean, Margaret. "A.A. and Religion." Psychiatric Annals, March 1975, pp. 36-42.

—"Alcoholics Anonymous Principles and Methods." Psychiatric Annals, February 1975, pp. 7-21.

—"A Critique of A.A." Psychiatric Annals, March 1975, pp. 7-19.

Blumberg, Leonard. "The Ideology of a Therapeutic Social Movement." Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Nov. 1977, pp. 2122-2143.

Cain, Arthur. "Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure?" Harper's, February 1963, pp. 48-52.

—"Alcoholics Can Be Cured—Despite A.A." Saturday Evening Post, September 19, 1965, pp. 6-8.

Dick B. Turning Point: A History of Early AA's Spiritual Roots and Successes. San Rafael, CA: Paradise Research, 1997.

Design for Living: The Oxford Group's Contribution to Early A.A. San Rafael, CA: Paradise Research, 1996.

The Good Book and the Big Book: A.A.'s Roots in the Bible. San Rafael, CA: Paradise Research, 1997.

Ellis, Albert and Schoenfeld, Eugene. "Divine Intervention and the Treatment of Chemical Dependency." Journal of Substance Abuse, No. 2, 1990, pp. 459-468 and 489-494.

Ellison, Jerome. "Alcoholics Anonymous: Dangers of Success." The Nation, March 2, 1964, pp. 212-214.

Gelman, Irving. The Sober Alcoholic: An Organizational Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous. New Haven, CT: College and University Press, 1964.

Hunter, T. Willard. It Started Right There: AA & MRA. Salem, OR: Grosvenor Books, n.d. (probably 1995)

Katz, Stan and Liu, Aimee. The Codependency Conspiracy. New York: Warner Books, 1991

Kurtz, William. Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1979.

Markey, Morris. "Alcoholics and God." Liberty, September 30, 1939, pp. 6-7.

Peele, Stanton. Diseasing of America. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1989.

Pittman, Bill. AA The Way It Began. Seattle, Glen Abbey Books: 1988.

Ragge, Ken. The Real AA: Behind the Myth of 12-Step Recovery. Tucson: See Sharp Press, 1998.

Robertson, Nan. Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous. New York: Wm. Morrow, 1988.

Rudy, David. Becoming Alcoholic. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.

Salomone, Guy. Religious and Spiritual Origins of the Twelve Step Recovery Movement. Lotus, CA: Lotus Press, 1997.

Thomsen, Robert. Bill W. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Trimpey, Jack. Rational Recovery from Alcoholism: The Small Book. Lotus, CA: Lotus Press, 1989.

Wilson, Bill. Alcoholics Anonymous (3rd ed.). New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1985.

Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1957.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1953.

Wilson, Lois. Lois Remembers. New York: Al-Anon, 1979.

Anonymous.

Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1980

Pass It On: Bill Wilson and the A.A. Message. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1984.

The A.A. Service Manual Combined with Twelve Concepts for World Service. (No author listed for "Service Manual"; Bill Wilson listed as author of "Twelve Concepts.") New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1989.

THE OXFORD GROUP MOVEMENT/MORAL RE-ARMAMENT

Bennett, John C. Social Salvation. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946, pp. 53-59.

Clark, Walter. The Oxford Group: Its History and Significance. New York: Bookman Assoc., 1951.

Devine, Frank. "Salvation for the Select." American Mercury, March 1933, pp. 313-319.

Driberg, Tom. The Mystery of Moral Re-Armament. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.

Eister, Allan. Drawing-Room Conversion: A Sociological Account of the Oxford Group Movement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1950.

Ferguson, Charles. The Confusion of Tongues: A Review of Modern Isms. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1940, pp. 89-109.

Harrison, Marjorie. Saints Run Mad. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1934.

Henson, Herbert, D.D. (Bishop of Durham). The Oxford Group Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 1933.

Howard, Peter. Britain and the Beast. London: Heinemann, 1963.

Frank Buchman's Secret. New York: Doubleday, 1961.

MacIntosh, Douglas Clyde. Personal Religion. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942, pp. 372-395.

Niebuhr, Reinhold. "Hitler and Buchman." The Christian Century, October 7, 1936, pp. 1315-1316.

Richardson, John A. The Groups Movement. Milwaukee: Morehouse Publishing, 1935.

Trillin, Calvin. "U.S. Letter: Chicago." New Yorker, December 16, 1967, pp. 128-136.

Van Dusen, Henry. "Apostle to the Twentieth Century." Atlantic Monthly, July 1934, pp. 1-16.

—"The Oxford Group Movement." Atlantic Monthly, August 1934, pp. 240-252.

Anonymous.

—"Buchman's Kampf." Time, January 18, 1943, pp. 65-66.

—"A God Guided Dictator." The Christian Century, September 9, 1936, pp. 1182-1183.

Ideology & Co-Existence. Moral Re-Armament, 1959.

—"Less Buchmanism." Time, November 24, 1941, p. 59.

—"Moral Re-Armament RIP." National Review, October 20, 1970, p. 1099.

—"The Moral Re-Armer." Time, August 18, 1961, p. 59.

—"New Man at M.R.A." Time, October 30, 1964, p. 74.

—"The Oxford Group—Genuine or a Mockery?" Literary Digest, January 28, 1933, pp. 18-19.

—"Oxford Group: God-Guidance and Four 'Absolute Principles.'" Newsweek, June 6, 1936, pp. 26-27.

—"Report on Buchmanism." Time, January 4, 1943, p. 68.

—"When the White Begins to Fade." The Christian Century, June 28, 1972, pp. 704-705.

EFFECTIVENESS OF AA/12-STEP TREATMENT

Annis, Helen. "Is Alcoholism Treatment Effective?" Science, April 3, 1987, pp. 20-22.

Baekeland, Frederick. "Evaluation of Treatment Methods in Chronic Alcoholism." Treatment and Rehabilitation of the Chronic Alcoholic, B. Kissen and H. Begleiter, eds., pp. 385-440. New York: Plenum Press, 1977.

Bebbington, Paul. "The Efficacy of Alcoholics Anonymous: The Elusiveness of Hard Data." British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 128 (1976), pp. 572-580.

Bill C. "The Growth and Effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous in a Southwestern City, 1945-1962. Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 26 (1965), pp. 279-284.

Brandsma, Jeffrey, et al. Outpatient Treatment of Alcoholism. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1980.

Cahalan, Don. Understanding America's Drinking Problem. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.

Daley, Dennis. "Relapse Prevention with Substance Abusers: Clinical Issues and Myths." Social Work, March-April 1987, pp. 138-142.

Dawson, Deborah. "Correlates of Past-Year Status Among Treated and Untreated Persons with Former Alcohol Dependence: United States, 1992." Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Vol. 20, No. 4, June 1996, pp. 771-779.

Ditman, Keith, et al. "A Controlled Experiment on the Use of Court Probation for Drunk Arrests." American Journal of Psychiatry, August 1967, pp. 64-67.

Drew, Leslie. "Alcoholism as a Self-Limiting Disease." Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 29 (1968), pp. 956-967.

Fingarette, Herbert. Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988.

Finney, John and Moos, Rudolf. "The Long-Term Course of Treated Alcoholism." Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 52, No. 1 (1991), pp. 44-54.

Finney, John and Monahan, Susan. "The Cost Effectiveness of Treatment for Alcoholism: A Second Approximation." Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Vol. 57 (1996), pp. 229-242.

Fox, Vince. Addiction, Change & Choice: The New View of Alcoholism. Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 1993.

Glaser, Frederic and Ogborne, Alan. "Does A.A. Really Work?" British Journal of Addiction,

No. 77 (1982), pp. Pp. 123-129.

Hester, Reid and Miller, William. Handbook of Alcoholism Treatment Approaches: Effective Approaches (second edition). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.

Nace, Edgar. "Inpatient Treatment." Recent Developments in Alcoholism, Vol. 11 (1993), Marc Galanter, ed., pp. 429-451.

Ogborne, Alan and Glaser, Frederick. "Evaluating Alcoholics Anonymous." Alcoholism and Substance Abuse: Strategies for Clinical Intervention, Thomas Bratter and Gary Forrest, eds. New York: The Free Press, 1985, pp. 176-192.

Peele, Stanton. "AA Abuse." Reason, November 1991, pp. 34-39.

—"Denial—of Reality and Freedom—in Addiction Research and Treatment." Bulletin of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1986, pp. 149-166.

—"Alcoholism, Politics, and Bureaucracy: The Consensus Against Controlled-Drinking Therapy in America." Addictive Behaviors, Vol. 17 (1992), pp. 49-62.

The Truth About Addiction and Recovery (with Archie Brodsky). Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1995.

Project MATCH Research Group. "Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Hetero- geneity: Project MATCH Posttreatment Drinking Outcomes." Journal of Studies on Alcohol, January 1997, pp. 7-29.

Roizen, Ron. "The Great Controlled-Drinking Controversy." Recent Developments in Alcoholism, Vol. 5, pp. 245-279.

Schmidt, Laura and Weisner, Constance. "Developments in Alcoholism Treatment." Recent Developments in Alcoholism, Vol. 11 (1993), pp. 369-396.

Tuchfeld, Barry. "Spontaneous Remission in Alcoholics: Empirical Observations and Theoretical Implications." Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 42, No. 7 (1981), pp. 626-641.

Zinberg, Norman. "Alcoholics Anonymous and the Treatment and Prevention of Alcoholism." Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, January 1977, pp. 91-102.

Anonymous/Multiple Author

—"National Treatment Center Study Summary Report." Athens, GA: Institute for Behavioral Research, 1997.

—"National Treatment Center Study Summary Report: Six and Twelve Month Follow- up" Athens, GA: Institute for Behavioral Research, 1997.

—"National Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services: The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) 1992-1995." Rockville, MD: SAMHSA, 1997.

CULTS

Anderson, Einar. I Was a Mormon. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1964.

Anderson, Jon Lee and Anderson, Scott. Inside The League. New York: Dodd Mead, 1986.

Appel, Willa. Cults in America. New York: Henry Holt, 1983.

Atack, Jon. A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1990.

Bradlee, Ben, Jr. and Van Atta, Dale. Prophet of Blood: The Story of the "Mormon Manson." New York: Putnam Pub. Group, 1981.

Brinton, Maurice. The Irrational in Politics: Sexual Repression and Authoritarian Conditioning. Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 1993.

Brodie, Fawn. No Man Knows My History. New York: Knopf, 1946.

Corydon, Bent and Hubbard, L. Ron, Jr. L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1987.

Edwards, Christopher. Crazy for God: The Nightmare of Cult Life. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, 1979.

Gerstel, David. Paradise Incorporated: Synanon. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982.

Hassan, Steven. Combatting Cult Mind Control. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 1988.

King, Dennis. Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

Lifton, Robert Jay. Thought Control and the Psychology of Totalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.

Martinez, Thomas and Guinther, John. Brotherhood of Murder. New York: McGraw Hill, 1988.

Miles, Austin. Don't Call Me Brother: A Ringmaster's Escape from the Pentecostal Church. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989.

Miller, Russell. Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard. New York: Henry Holt, 1987.

Mills, Jeannie. Six Years with God: Life Inside Rev. Jim Jones's Peoples Temple. New York: A & W Publishers, 1979.

Milne, Hugh. Bhagwan: The God That Failed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.

Mitchell, Dave and Cathy, and Ofshe, Richard. The Light on Synanon. New York: Seaview Books, 1980.

Penton, James. Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1986.

Reich, Wilhelm. The Mass Psychology of Fascism. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970.

Rudin, James and Martha. Prison or Paradise: The New Religious Cults. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.

Sanders, Ed. The Family. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1971.

Schnell, William. 30 Years a Watchtower Slave. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1971.

Singer, Margaret. Cults In Our Midst. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.

Stoner, Carroll and Parke, Jo Ann. All Gods [sic] Children: The Cult Experience—Salvation or Slavery. New York: Penguin, 1977.

Underwood, Barbara and Betty. Hostage to Heaven. New York: Clarkson S. Potter, Inc. 1979.

Williams, J.L. Victor Paul Wierwille and The Way International. Chicago: Moody Bible Institute, 1979.









A Final Note: For readers interested in the latest developments regarding Alcoholics Anonymous, the best single source is The Journal of Rational Recovery, P.O. Box 800, Lotus, CA 95961.