The trouble I have with 12-step programs is twofold. ...
1. The "Admit you are powerless" clause, particularly in
conjunction with the "Higher Power" idea.
30 or 40 years ago, Charles Hampden-Turner (in, I think, "The Delancy
Street Asylum") said, if I remember rightly, that many people with
addictions think of themselves as being able to overcome the
addiction, but don't bother.
Only after they have made a major psychological shift do they bother.
One way to make such a psychological shift is to give up and recreate.
An anthropologist would call it a rebirth ritual.
Also, Hampden-Turner made the point that the most likely people to
make such a shift in the US culture of the time were people whose
background was one or other form of Christian puritanism. That is
because people in other US cultures tended to be more forgiving.
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