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Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Destructive Cult?
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:01:23
Publish Date: 2017-04-01 01:00:58
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This week I’m joined by Jon Stewart, a former member of Alcoholics Anonymous and someone with a great deal of experience discussing the pros and cons of the program, how it runs and how it shares certain characteristics with destructive cults and yet…is it destructive itself? We talk about this in detail in this episode.

Jon Stewart’s blog essay “Leaving AA Staying Sober”: https://jonsleeper.wordpress.com/
Recovering From Recovery: https://www.recoveringfromrecovery.com/
AA Agnostica (Atheist AA): http://aaagnostica.org/
AA Beyond Belief (Atheist AA): http://www.aabeyondbelief.com/
Andy Thomson, “Why We Believe in God(s)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg&t=2s
Dan Dennett, “Can Churches Survive the New Transparency?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=409sOZInjiw&t=16s
Robert Dudley, “The Drunken Monkey Thesis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FOhjLK4yc
The Sinclair Method (TSM): https://www.the-sinclair-method.com/
Claudia Christian’s TSM documentary “One Little Pill”:  http://www.onelittlepillmovie.com/
SMART Recovery (CBT): http://www.smartrecovery.org/
LifeRing Secular Recovery: http://lifering.org/
Martin Nicolaus (LifeRing) on the disease theory of alcoholism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AziqReZJs7A
Monica Richardson’s documentary on sexual predation in AA, “The 13th Step”: http://www.the13thstepfilm.com/
Sleeper’s singer, Louise Wener, wrote a great memoir “Just For One Day”: https://www.amazon.com/Just-One-Day-Adventures-Britpop-ebook/dp/B008EMAL4G/ref
Sleeper have a big UK reunion tour this Summer, first time we’ve played together in 20 years: http://starshaped.club/

Music by Pale Blue.

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