From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... breaking anonymity.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
2.
... breaking anonymity
at the public level.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
3.
... breaking down
the patient's inner resistance so ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
I now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be
the task of breaking down the patient's inner resistance so that
which is inside him will flower, as under the activity of the A.A. program."
4.
... breaking point,
and I was thoroughly miserable.
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I was self conscious and
ill at ease most of the time, my health was at the
breaking point, and I was thoroughly miserable.
5.
... breaking up
into warring fragments.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
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