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Jim Burwell, one of the early members, recounts that the original AAs took ideas “from everybody we could think of and tried to use anything we thought would be useful to help the … drunk”. 26), doctor of medicine William Silkworth ( xxv-i), philosopher and psychologist William James, psychotherapist, William Peabody, philosopher Lewis Browne, spiritual leader Emmett Fox and the (Christian) Oxford Group ( p. In section 5, I will return to the editors’ original questions.ĪA itself emerged from different intellectual disciplines drawing its principal ideas from psychoanalyst Carl Jung ( p. In section 4 I will look at AA ‘spirituality’ and recovery from a clinical perspective. In section 3 I will offer a hypothesis about how AA’s twelve steps provide a ‘spiritual’ mechanism of recovery.

In section 2 I will outline the AA conception and propose that it specifies the non-eliminable levels of addiction. In section 1 I will outline the AA conception and propose that it specifies the non-eliminable levels of addiction. I believe that the conception of alcoholism and how it should be treated that can be found in the foundational texts of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) provides an excellent framework for addressing those questions. Contributors to this issue were invited to ‘tackle the following pressing questions’: ‘What are the non-eliminable levels and/or dimensions of addiction?’ ‘Can these different levels be integrated into a properly comprehensive, integrated program of inquiry?’ ‘If so, what will be the best way to achieve this integration?’ ‘What will be the unique expected benefits of successfully achieving this integration?’