12 Step Free - http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/12-step-free/
12 Step Free is a discussion list for those who have left the AA groups or are seriously questioning the 12-step doctrine. Perhaps our most important function is to provide a place where many can dare be critical and not be accused by a "unanimous majority" of groupers of suffering from a "defect of character" for doing so. |
Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure? - http://www.morerevealed.com/library/coc/
A book by Charles Bufe critical of Alcoholics Anonymous. Complete text of Second Edition, 1998. |
Cult Busting, InterPsych Newsletter - http://www.schaler.net/fifth/cultbusting.html
Article by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D., describing the psychological characteristics of cult membership. The cult nature of Alcoholics Anonymous and disease model of addiction ideology is examined. Patterns of response by individuals who believe strongly in the disease model of addiction when their ideology is challenged are analyzed. |
More Revealed - http://www.morerevealed.com
In the Step groups, it is often heard that "More will be revealed." For the "revelations" here, perhaps the best place to start is in the beginning. |
The Dry Piper - http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/01-05/0105-dry-piper.htm
Article from Modern Drunkard Magazine which takes a critical view of Bill W's life. |