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The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey - Softcover

Travis, Trysh

 
9781469607306: The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1469607301 ISBN 13: 9781469607306
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013

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About the Author

Trysh Travis is associate professor of women's studies at the University of Florida, USA. She helped to found and now edits Points: the Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.

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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 commercialized addiction treatment centers 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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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 commercialized addiction treatment centers 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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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1469607301
ISBN 13 
9781469607306
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
376