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The Language of the Heart : A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey, Paperback / softback Book

The Language of the Heart : A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey Paperback / softback

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In The Language of the Heart, Trysh Travis explores the rich cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its offshoots and the larger ""recovery movement"" that has grown out of them.

Moving from AA's beginnings in the mid-1930s as a men's fellowship that met in church basements to the thoroughly commercialised addiction treatment centres of today, Travis chronicles the development of recovery and examines its relationship to the broad American tradition of self-help, highlighting the roles that gender, mysticism, and bibliotherapy have played in that development.

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