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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PSYCHIATRIST occurs
12 times
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1.
... psychiatrist.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Try to
remember that though
God has
wrought miracles among us, we should
never belittle a
good doctor or
psychiatrist.
2.
... psychiatrist and
the doctor.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
Strangely enough,
wives,
parents and
intimate friends usually
find us even more
unapproachable than do
the
psychiatrist and the
doctor.
3.
... psychiatrist: "As
a psychiatrist, I have thought ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr.
Harry M.
Tiebout,
psychiatrist: "As a
psychiatrist, I have
thought a
great deal about the
relationship of my
specialty to
A.A. and I have
come to the
conclusion
that our
particular function can very often
lie in
preparing the way for the
patient to
accept any
sort of
treatment or
outside help.
4.
... psychiatrist can
tell you whether these complications ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
A
good doctor or
psychiatrist can tell you whether these
complications are
serious.
5.
... psychiatrist, Dr.
Jung) who prescribed for him.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
Then he had
gone to
Europe,
placing himself in the
care
of a
celebrated physician (the
psychiatrist,
Dr.
Jung) who
prescribed for him.
6.
... psychiatrist: "I
have felt that A.A. is ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. G.
Kirby Collier,
psychiatrist: "I have
felt that
A.A. is a
group unto themselves and their
best results can be had under
their
own guidance, as a
result of their
philosophy.
7.
... psychiatrist, I
have thought a great deal ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr.
Harry M.
Tiebout,
psychiatrist: "As a
psychiatrist, I have
thought a
great deal about the
relationship of my
specialty to
A.A. and I have
come to the
conclusion
that our
particular function can very often
lie in
preparing the way for the
patient to
accept any
sort of
treatment or
outside help.
8.
... psychiatrist's job
to be the task of ...
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."
9.
... psychiatrist of
a large public hospital to ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
Arrangements were also made with the
chief psychiatrist of a
large public hospital to
select still
others from the
stream of
misery which
flows through
that
institution.
10.
... Psychiatrist, Philadelphia
General Hospital, citing his experience ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr.
John F.
Stouffer,
Chief Psychiatrist,
Philadelphia
General Hospital,
citing his
experience
with
A.A., said: "The
alcoholics we get here at
Philadelphia General
are mostly those who cannot
afford private treatment, and
A.A. is by far the
greatest
thing we have been able to
offer them.
11.
... psychiatrist who
had undertaken certain responsibilities for ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
12.
... psychiatrist who
says, "Defiant brats!
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
He is
joined by a
psychiatrist who says, "
Defiant
brats!
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