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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.


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... William D. Silkworth, M.D.   BB xxvi(xxiv), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
Very truly yours, William D. Silkworth, M.D.


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William D. Silkworth, M.D.   BB xxxii(xxx), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
William D. Silkworth, M.D.


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... William D. Silkworth, our Society's great medical ...   BB xi, Preface   Display entire Preface
The section called "The Doctor's Opinion" has been kept intact, just as it was originally written in 1939 by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, our Society's great medical benefactor.


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... William James calls the "educational variety" because ...   BB p.567(569), Appendix II, Spiritual Experience   Display entire Appendix II
Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a period of time.


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... William James, in his book "Varieties of ...   BB p.28, There Is A Solution   Go to page 28 in the Big Book
The distinguished American psychologist, William James, in his book "Varieties of Religious Experience," indicates a multitude of ways in which men have discovered God.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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