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The Language of the Heart : A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey Cover Image E-book

The Language of the Heart : A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey

Travis, Trysh (author.).

Summary: In The Language of the Heart, Trysh Travis explores the rich cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its offshoots and the larger "recovery movement" that has grown out of them. Moving from AA's beginnings in the mid-1930s as a men's fellowship that met in church basements to the thoroughly commercialized addiction treatment centers of today, Travis chronicles the development of recovery and examines its relationship to the broad American tradition of self-help, highlighting the roles that gender, mysticism, and bibliotherapy have played in that development.

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  • ISBN: 9780807898703
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (357 pages)
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Alcoholics Anonymous History
Alcoholics Anonymous.
Recovery movement History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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