Emotional Dynamite

. . .It was into an uncharted future that we looked from the window of Dr. Bob's living room in 1937 when we first realized that alcoholics might be able to get well in large numbers. The world around us, the world of more normal people, was being torn apart. Could we recovered alcoholics hold together? Could we carry AA's message? Could we function as groups and as a whole? No one could say. Our friends the psychiatrists, with some reason, had begun to warn: "This fellowship of alcoholics is emotional dynamite. Its neurotic content can blow it to bits." When drinking we were certainly explosive enough. Now that we were sober, would dry benders and emotional jags blow us up?