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Alcoholics Anonymous

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Basement Miracles"

Observations from an AA meeting.

R.S. Wynn Pithead Chapel Jan 2018 15min Permalink

Religion

Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines, and Dope Fiends

The rise and fall of Synanon, an addiction-recovery cult in California, and its charismatic leader, a one-time homeless wino named Chuck Dederich who taught his followers to berate each other for therapy.

George Pendle Cabinet Apr 2013 15min Permalink

Secret of AA

A psychological, historical and neurological look at Alcoholics Anonymous.

Brendan I. Koerner Wired Jun 2010 20min Permalink

Arts

Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library

Text from the books and Foster Wallace’s corresponding annotations:

Along with all the Wittgenstein, Husserl and Borges, he read John Bradshaw, Willard Beecher, Neil Fiore, Andrew Weil, M. Scott Peck and Alice Miller. Carefully.

Maria Bustillos The Awl Apr 2011 40min Permalink