August 1957
Through the Looking Glass
Portions of a talk made last April at the Chicago Annual Meeting of the National Council on Alcoholism. The author, John P. L., recently joined the General Service Board of AA as an alcoholic Trustee.
AA IS NOT A PSYCHIATRIC GROUP but it does provide a way for a man to come to grips with his guilt and shame. It shows his through its program how these can be resolved, and freedom from their burden can be obtained--not by dismissing the idea that what the man did was wrong. There is no effort to tell the alcoholic that what he did was not bad, was not foolish, was not stupid, but he can be told that this was an expression of his disease and he need no longer bear the burden of his guilt, if he follows the suggested program of obtaining release from it.
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