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kleinbl00 · 3684 days ago · link · · parent · post: The pseudo-science of Alcoholics Anonymous: There’s a better way to treat addiction.
I haven't seen much evidence of Bill W ever claiming any science to what he did, nor any of his followers doing said-same. AA has always had a spiritual framework and owes a lot more to Dale Carnegie than Freud or Erickson. It's also clumsy and dishonest to conflate AA with "rehab." Although there is overlap, rehabilitation is a broad category of treatments and services applied to a panoply of ills through countless modalities. AA is a rigid, structured, controlled hierarchy of talk therapies applied by a semi-gnostic central organization. I mean, the damn article lists the twelve steps. Of those twelve, four of them name-check God and two more allude to him. Accusing AA of "pseudoscience" is disingenuous in the extreme.