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A Biography of Clarence Snyder: How It Worked in Early Aa
K. Mitchell

Hazelden, 2001

Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement: A Study in Eight Societies. (book reviews): An article from: ...
Ernest Kurtz

Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc., 1997

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Spirituality of Imperfection, The

46 reviews
Ernest Kurtz

Bantam, 1992

From AA to Zeitgeist
This is a remarkably wise book, whatever your spiritual history. From Desert Fathers and Thomas Merton to the Tao Te Ching, its scope is broad and charged with a vision of understanding that stands at the base of any effort to the growth of the soul through the five indices: prayer, observance, disciline, thought and action.

The Collected Ernie Kurtz
Ernest Kurtz

Authors Choice Press, 2008

Ernest Kurtz has been the outstanding thinker of the A.A. tradition's second generation, the one who played a constant leadership role in pushing the movement towards the highest professional standards of history writing and supplied some of its most influential interpretive concepts. His ideas are vitally important for anyone who wishes to understand A.A. history during the period following Bill Wilson's death in 1971. As a Ph.D. student at ...

Shame & Guilt

2 reviews
Ernest Kurtz

iUniverse, Inc., 2007

Most helpful
This book gives great insight to the real meaning of Shame and Guilt . Knowing the difference can mean life or death for many of us who are riddeled with these emotions. Roy R.

Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous

8 reviews
Ernest Kurtz

Hazelden, 1991

Not God
Wonderfully insightful for all. Splendidly illustrates the history and formation of AA and it's painstaking growth through the early formative years of AA. A great read!

AA: The Story (A Revised Edition of 'Not-God')

1 review
Ernest Kurtz

Random House Value Publishing, 1991

"Not-God"
Everyone in a 12-step program should eventually read this account by a graduate student who attended 100 AA meetings and then described them for his dissertation. The dissertation turned into this book. The author praises AA for the true Christian behavior of its members -- unlike many churches he has been in, he notes. He documents his theory that the important feature of the AA program is not ...

Shame and Guilt : Characteristics of the Dependency Cycle (#1940A)
Ernest Kurtz

Hazelden, 1981

This was the first non-technical book to discuss the differentiation of shame from guilt and to apply that distinction to alcoholics and addicts. Sections include: Discovering and Recognizing Shame; Confronting Shame; The Healingr of Shame.