Pregledni rad

Alcoholics Anonymous

Robert Torre ; Klinička bolnica "Sestre milosrdnice", Klinika za psihijatriju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Zoran Zoričić ; Klinička bolnica "Sestre milosrdnice", Klinika za psihijatriju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Križo Katanić ; Klinička bolnica "Sestre milosrdnice", Klinika za psihijatriju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Boris Škifić ; Opća bolnica Zadar, Odjel za psihijatriju

Sažetak

Alcoholics Anonymous is by far the most numerous, most well-known and most effective organization dealing with alcohol addicts' treatment. The Anonymous have done more for the world alcoholics than all the systems of alcohol addiction treatment and prevention together, and as a planetary social movement, it has literally helped millions of alcoholics. Alcoholics Anonymous have tipped the scales by making the professional and interest public perceive that addiction to alcohol was not to be experienced any more as a moral vice but as a disease, and a disease that could be healed.
The theoretical and therapeutic constructions of Alcoholics Anonymous were of vital importance to the expert treatment systems of alcohol dependence throughout the world and have, in a modified aspect, been more or less built into all the alcohol dependence assistance systems. Moreover, in many of these, attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous group meetings is an obligatory and integral part of the treatment.
In this review article, the world history specific quality of the Alcoholics Anonymous movement has been elaborated; the most significant moments have been stated in the almost eighty-year-long history of Alcoholics Anonymous; their activities have been brought out, working elements and doctrines by which they recover and the number and characteristics of their membership, as well as the actual diffusion of Alcoholics Anonymous groups throughout the world.

Ključne riječi

Alcoholics Anonymous; recovery; Bill Wilson; 12 steps self-help groups; Alcoholics Anonymous history

Hrčak ID:

57608

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/57608

Datum izdavanja:

19.8.2010.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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