Challenging and Resisting Dominant Discourses in Alcoholics Anonymous

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Dr. Jennifer Dunn obtained her Doctorate in Psychotherapy in Counselling from the University of Edinburgh, and is now a psychotherapist working in private practice.

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Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 'My name is Jen, and I'm an alcoholic ...I don't know anymore' 1.2 The redemptive narrative of an A.A. member 1.3 Discourses and their subjects 1.4 The psychotherapeutic subject 1.5 Everything you wanted to know about Alcoholics Anonymous but were afraid to ask Chapter Two: How do you research an institution that is supposed to be anonymous? 2.1 Anonymity 2.2 A.A. member accounts in academic literature 2.3. A.A.'s efficacy 2.4 Discursive research on A.A. 2.5 Ex-member accounts 2.6 Research questions arising from literature review Chapter 3: Methodologically developing Reflexive Insider Discourse Analysis 3.1 Social constructionism - the obvious choice for researching A.A. 3.2 Onto-epistemological positioning 3.3. A brief introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis [CDA] 3.4 The limitations of doing a 'straight' CDA 3.5 The contributions of ethnomethodology 3.6 A new method: Reflexive Insider Discourse Analysis 3.7 Ethical questions Chapter 4: A.A.'s religious discourse 4.1 My first A.A. meeting 4.2 A.A. is NOT a religious organisation - according to A.A. 4.3 A.A.'s religious roots 4.4 Biblical discourse in The Big Book 4.5 The Program as the primary object of The Big Book 4.6 The recovered alcoholic subject position 4.7 Choose your own conception of God 4.8 Our common purpose 4.9 Conclusion of religious discourse chapter Chapter 5: A.A.'s gendered discourse 5.1 Some more context on The Big Book and its first members 5.2 It's The Man's Man's Man's World 5.3 To Wives by Lois Wilson (aka Bill W.) 5.4 Girl - it's so confusing sometimes to be a girl 5.5 The Fourth and Fifth Step for women 5.6 The Thirteenth Step 5.7 So, in the end - who is A.A. for? Chapter 6: A.A.'s illness discourse 6.1 My body feels weird 6.2 Alcoholism, the illness, as the object 6.3 The allergy 6.4 The mental obsession 6.5 'The real alcoholic' as the subject 6.6 Neurodivergence 6.7 Abstinence and relapse 6.8 Conclusion of illness discourse chapter Chapter 7: The right way of being discourse in A.A. 7.1 Honesty 7.2 We have admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our defects 7.3 It's me, hi! I'm the problem, it's me 7.4 Steps 8 and 9 - making amends to those we have harmed 7.5 The botched 'God-job' 7.6 Unpacking 'The botched God-job' Chapter 8: A.A.'s being of service discourse 8.1 The sponsor and the sponsee dynamic 8.2 'We should be like Dr. Bob - sponsoring like our lives depend on it' 8.3 Working hard, being useful 8.4 Boundaries 8.5 Self-care is a dirty word 8.6 Your own personal Jesus 8.7 Conclusions on being of service Chapter 9: Discussion of losing my religion 9.1 What were the key discourses identified in The Big Book, and what kind of subject do they construct? 9.2 Group dynamics 9.3 Are we having fun yet? 9.4 God is a concept by which we measure our pain Chapter 10: Implications and Conclusions 10.1 Did the RIDA flow? Reflections on what braiding personal experience with critical discourse analysis produced 10.2 Insights for counselling and psychotherapy 10.3 Insights for A.A. as a global fellowship 10.4 Limitations 10.5 Epilogue Bibliography