Healing the Edited Soul: Elements of Spiritual Containment in Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12 Steps
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| Publicado en: | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (2025) |
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| Resumen: | This thesis combines heuristic and hermeneutic methods and a depth psychological perspective to explore how Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and the 12-Step program might shift one’s internal relationship with shame. The literature review defines shame and explores its etiology, highlighting the comparative phenomena of shame as a ruptured self and addiction as a thirst for wholeness. Through a depth psychological analysis of the author’s experience with toxic, chronic shame and addiction, the path toward healing is revealed in the initiation of individuation in AA and the 12-Step program. AA is found to provide the container for identification, acceptance, and ownership of self through storytelling and to shift toxic shame to a state of meaningful humility and self-acceptance. |
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| ISBN: | 9798310147683 |
| Fuente: | Publicly Available Content Database |