“When Dominic entered my office, he had accepted as empirical truth that he was a deeply flawed individual: amoral, narcissistic, and unable to turn himself over to a Higher Power. How else to explain the swath of destruction he had cut through his own life and the lives of those who loved him? His time in AA had also taught him that his deeper psychological life was immaterial to mastering his addiction. He had a disease; the solution was in the Twelve Steps. When he was ready to quit, he would. It took eight months of psychotherapy before Dominic stopped drinking for good. Although he remained in therapy for several years after that, the key that unlocked his addiction was nothing more complex or ethereal than an understanding of what his addiction really was and how it really worked.”
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Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry