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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.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Self-help techniques

• Twelve-step programs -- Controversial literature
• 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)

• 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 with commentary at psychoheresy.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)

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

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