Product Description: Ernest Kurtz has been the outstanding thinker of the A.A. tradition's second generation, the one who played a constant leadership role in pushing the movement towards the highest professional standards of history writing and supplied some of its most influential interpretive concepts...read more

Product Description: Shame & Guilt explores the differences between these two painful but inevitable experiences. Both guilt and shame involve feeling “bad”—feeling bad about one’s actions (or omissions) in the case of guilt; feeling bad about one’s self in shame...read more

Examines the shared concerns and stories of a broad spectrum of spiritual traditions to reveal the ancient wisdom that underlies all recovery programs, accompanied by illuminating commentary and stories designed to help readers transform their lives. Reissue.

Product Description: The most complete history of A.A. ever written. Not-God contains anecdotes and excerpts from the diaries, correspondence, and occasional memoirs of A.A.'s early figures. A fascinating, fast-moving, and authoritative account of the discovery and development of the program and fellowship that we know today as Alcoholics Anonymous...read more

Traces the history of Alcoholics Anonymous, examines the organization's philosophy, and explains how they help alcoholics recover

Product Description: This was the first non-technical book to discuss the differentiation of shame from guilt and to apply that distinction to alcoholics and addicts. Sections include: Discovering and Recognizing Shame; Confronting Shame; The Healingr of Shame.