Q & A: Alcoholism and Sobriety
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“Jane S. offers us an invaluable gift in the words and wisdom that fill this book. Based on more than thirty-six years of personal recovery and service work, the lessons contained here reveal how a courageous woman, through Alcoholics Anonymous and the help of a gifted physician, found long-term solutions to the problems of alcoholism and manic-depressive illness. This engaging guidebook to recovery is highly recommended.”
William White, author of Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America
“Wow! This is a solid book in a helpful format. It should attract a wide readership who will enjoy its story; as importantly, it will serve as a significant reference work for researchers interested in the development of recovery.”
Ernest Kurtz, author of Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous
Q & A: Alcoholism and Sobriety
Tags: ALCOHOLISM, America, Books, Ernest, God, Jane, long term solutions, manic depressive illness, Recovery, slaying the dragon, Sobriety, William White
There is nothing quite like this in the literature of recovery from alcoholism. Jane S. is an alcoholic, manic depressive, sober since October 1970, active in the NCA under Marty Mann, a Corrections professional, past AA Trustees’ Committee member on Corrections, active in all levels of AA service work, a former rehab counselor, a participant in the Kirk Seminars at the CAAS at Brown — in short a woman of a truly remarkable breadth of experience and knowledge in recovery from alcoholism. Her book takes some of its inspiration from Marty Mann’s Primer back in the 1950s, but it is aimed at helping answer present questions, in the present world, and it does a remarkable job of it. To me, as a scholar in the field, the book’s greatest achievement is in the blending of the author’s long personal and AA experience with knowledge of current biomedical and other scientific research — to me as a literary critic, it is in capturing the author’s very personal voice. Perhaps, in the not-too-distant future, along with the little black book (Twenty-Four Hours a Day), we will have this little gray book as a key to recovery from alcoholism. No better description has come my way of what life in AA is like, and what keeps AAs sober. Very highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5