Let's Not Water Down the Soup

AA claims no monopoly on therapy for the alcoholic, so our Big Book tells us. But our book does contain precise instructions for our recovery. Bill W. even wrote a second book, the "Twelve and Twelve," to further explain these instructions. If we have other problems, emotional or physical, we are encouraged to seek appropriate professionals. We are to cooperate with our friends in other fields, though AA's primary purpose dictates that it must remain non-allied with any other groups.