Alcoholics Anonymous: The Official "Big Book" from Alcoholic Anonymous

by Alcoholics Anonymous

All these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. This phenomenon, as we have suggested, may be the manifestation of an allergy which differentiates these people, and sets them apart as a distinct entity. It has never been, by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently eradicated. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence.

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precipitates

Hardheaded

doomed.

solution?

A long time has passed with no return to alcohol.

Then he begins to appear at hospitals and sanitariums.

The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.

recovery:

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grace of God, Dr. Harry Tiebout, the psychiatrist who probably knew more about alcoholism than any other in the world. At that very time he was a nonalcoholic trustee on the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Our A.A. experience has taught us that: 1.—Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.

we may refuse none who wish to recover.

11.—Our

Dr. W. W. Bauer,

humility.

Aidos, in Greek mythology, was the daimona (goddess) of shyness, shame, and humility.[12] She was the quality that restrained human beings from wrong. Mythological Humility =Übermensch by way of German philosopher as a goal for humanity to set for itself. a shift from otherworldly Christian values and manifests the grounded human ideal. "Overhuman") is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. In his 1883 book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also sprach Zarathustra) The Übermensch (German pronunciation: [ˈʔyːbɐmɛnʃ]; transl. "Overhuman") is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. In his 1883 book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also sprach Zarathustra), Nietzsche has his character Zarathustra posit the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself. The Übermensch represents a shift from otherworldly Christian values and manifests the grounded human ideal.