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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
(12 & 12)
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TYPE
occurs
13 times
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Definition
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types
typical
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1.
... type.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
Then people said we were of the "
inferior
"
type
.
2.
... type.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
About
half
our
original
fellowship
were of
exactly
that
type
.
3.
... type.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
We are all
familiar
with this
type
.
4.
... type are
in the grip of a ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
We are
convinced
to a
man
that
alcoholics
of our
type
are in the
grip
of a
progressive
illness
.
5.
... type I
had come to regard as ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
In
late
1934
I
attended
a
patient
who, though he had been a
competent
businessman
of
good
earning
capacity
, was an
alcoholic
of a
type
I had
come
to
regard
as
hopeless
.
6.
... type of
alcoholic who is able and ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
For the
type
of
alcoholic
who is able and
willing
to get well,
little
charity
, in the
ordinary
sense
of the
word
, is
needed
or
wanted
.
7.
... type of
beginning we are obliged to ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
But even in this
type
of
beginning
we are
obliged
to
admit
that our
justification
for a
spree
was
insanely
insufficient
in the
light
of what always
happened
.
8.
... type of
hard drinker.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Then we have a
certain
type
of
hard
drinker
.
9.
... type of
man who is unwilling to ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There is the
type
of
man
who is
unwilling
to
admit
that he cannot take a
drink
.
10.
... type who
always believes that after being ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There is the
type
who always
believes
that after being
entirely
free
from
alcohol
for a
period
of
time
he can take a
drink
without
danger
.
11.
... type, who
is, perhaps, the least understood ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There is the
manic
-
depressive
type
, who is, perhaps, the
least
understood
by his
friends
, and about whom a
whole
chapter
could be
written
.
12.
... type with
whom other methods had failed ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I
personally
know
scores
of
cases
who were of the
type
with whom other
methods
had
failed
completely
.
13.
... type you
may feel you had better ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
If you are
positive
he is one of this
type
you may
feel
you had
better
leave
.
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