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Title: Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure? by Charles Bufe, Stanton Peele ISBN: 1-884365-12-4 Publisher: See Sharp Press Pub. Date: February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.48 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: Bufe is one of many writers today who are bravely setting the record straight about the new religion known as alcoholics anonymous. Bufe's history of AA is second to none yet I felt he was almost too "soft" on them regarding the cult aspect. go to a meeting and look at all the group prayers, chanting, mindless thought stopping cliches, and proselytizing. the comformity and obediance one sees at an AA meeting (and in their own literature) is simply frightening - they ALL say the same things over and over and over forever...THAT to me are markings of a religious cult! Even reading some of the reviews here by AA members (easy to detect) is like reading a scientologist defending the great faith. After reading Bufe's book, I would recommend anyone interested in AA to read the official AA books like "Alcoholics Anonymous" and the "12 steps and 12 traditions" then you will see some of what Bufe is talking about. it is scary when you realize the entire addiction treatment world is based on AA and most staff members at these facilities are members of AA as well....very scary indeed, it's like being surrounded by invisible (anonymous) cult zealots... Great book, Chaz!
Rating: 5
Summary: Revealing the true menace...
Comment: Those who would dismiss this book as simply a diatribe against AA either have not read it thoroughly, or are so entrenched in 12-step dogma as to be impervious to evidence. This book is an analysis, not an indictment, of the tenets of AA and the myriad 12-step groups which have followed it's precepts.
Should virtually anything, watching "teletubbies," for instance, free a single person from the misery which is caused by pathologically heavy drinking, I would not hesitate to recommend it as a possibility to a suffering soul. The facts , however, as Mr. Bufe illustrates so well in this book, show that participation in this program not only is unlikely to result in abstinence, but may well discourage those who are made uncomfortable or who are offended by the unmistakably religious foundation of this paradigm from seeking alternative means of treatment. (For those who would take exception to this assertion, I would direct them to the first paragraph of the fifth chapter of the Big Book, ubiquitous at the beginning of the majority of AA meetings, where the unequivocal statement is made that those who do or will not recover as a result of attendance are "constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves." If you do not, for any reason, agree with AA, you are engaging in self-deception.)
The critical chapter of this book (and the source of the heading of this review) is the one in which Mr. Bufe examines the effect which the various 12-step programs have had on our society in it's influence over our courts, and in the dilution of the popular concept of addiction.
For those interested in the subject, I would highly recommend "The Diseasing of America," by Stanton Peele,and "Heavy Drinking: the Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease," by Herbert Fingarette,both, of course, available at Amazon.com.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Book to convince the unconverted
Comment: Anyone who has been to AA meetings and witnessed the prevalence of people falling to their kness in prayer to their Higher Power, mentions of "GOD" and Our Lords Prayer knows that AA is a religion based on spirituality - just like Christianity.
Anyone who has also been to AA meetings and witnessed the sputtering and stuttering of the average meeting attendee reading through the simpleton's English of the Steps and Traditions knows that AA is not exactly a hotbed of intellectualism.
This book is really for the curious, but none the worse for that. Recommended if you want to understand AA's false promises.
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Title: Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in Aa, Na, or 12-Step Treatment by Stanton Peele, Charles Bufe, Archie Brodsky ISBN: 1884365175 Publisher: See Sharp Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: 12-Step Horror Stories: True Tales of Misery, Betrayal, and Abuse in AA, NA, and 12-Step Treatment by Rebecca Fransway ISBN: 1884365248 Publisher: See Sharp Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Real AA: Behind the Myth of 12-Step Recovery by Ken Ragge ISBN: 1884365140 Publisher: See Sharp Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Powerfully Recovered! A Confirmed 12 Stepper Challenges the Movement by Anne Wayman ISBN: 1581128762 Publisher: Upublish.com Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Addiction Is a Choice by Phd, Jeffrey Schaler, Jeffrey A. Schaler ISBN: 081269404X Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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