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Twelve-step programs

Here are entered works on self-help programs to resolve personal problems which are based on the twelve-step, group approach of Alcoholics Anonymous. Works on specific organizations which make use of twelve-step programs are entered under the name of the individual organization.

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• Self-help techniques

• Twelve-step programs -- Controversial literature
• Twelve-step programs -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Twelve-step programs -- Iceland
• Twelve-step programs -- Religious aspects

• Programs, Twelve-step
• Steps, Twelve (Self-help)
• Twelve steps (Self-help)

• More Revealed: A Critical Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps (online edition, 2005), by Ken Ragge (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment (Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 2000), by Stanton Peele (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Recovery literature in English, by Narcotics Anonymous (PDF files at na.org)

• 12-Step Horror Stories: True Tales of Misery, Betrayal, and Abuse in AA, NA, and 12-Step Treatment (2000), by Rebecca Fransway (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Twelve step facilitation therapy manual : a clinical research guide for therapists treating individuals with alcohol abuse and dependence (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1992), by Joseph Nowinski, Kathleen Carroll, Stuart Baker, and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Alcoholics Anonymous in Iceland: From Marginality to Mainstream Culture (2000), by Hildigunnur Ólafsdóttir (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), by Jennifer L. Manlowe (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependency Recovery Heresies (Santa Barbara, CA: EastGate Publishers, c1991), by Martin Bobgan and Deidre Bobgan (PDF at pamweb.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Be Your Own Therapist: Psychology Self Help (ca. 1995), by Thayer White (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Focusing on the Emotions of Daily Life: A Guide for Their Maintenance, by Ilan Shalif (HTML at shalif.com)
• Becoming Your Own Therapist: An Introduction to the Buddhist Way of Thought, by Thubten Yeshe, ed. by Nicholas Ribush (PDF at buddhanet.net)
• Good Mood: The New Psychology of Overcoming Depression, by Julian Lincoln Simon (HTML at juliansimon.com)
• Menticulture (Herbert S. Stone, 1899), by Horace Fletcher and Herbert S. Stone & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conquista del capital (Garay Publishing Company, 1922), by Amador de Garay (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand ways to make money : comprising the rounds and bounds of money making : the art of getting a living ... and hundreds of trade secrets never before given away (Abbey Press, 1900), by Page Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light that lighteth (Harper Press, 1924), by Blanche Grosbec Loveridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The handbook of life : practical psychology (Smith & Sale, 1922), by Terry Walter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mental hygiene for missionaries (Christian Medical Council for Overseas Work, 1948), by Eleanor Hope Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Success, contrib. by Orison Swett Marden (partial serial archives)

• The understanding heart. (American Unitarian Assn., 1907), by Samuel McChord Crothers and American Unitarian Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Joseph Michael Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• Fifty two success talks on the logic of business and philosophy of life (Chicago : The Stevens-Davis Co., [1918], 1918), by Roderick G. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Franklin year book : maxims and morals from the great philosopher (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1907), by Benjamin Franklin, Wallace Rice, and Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)