teresaq Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 12 Step Bureaucracy “…where the AA and NA crowd continues to normalize boundary-breeching in its culture, many of the co-dependents have over-reacted and attempted to outlaw any form of communication they interpret as boundary-trampling, even when it isn’t.” This is a further installment in the series of articles on the productive and counter-productive influences of adjunct therapy in 12 Step fellowships. Background Cognitive therapists working with patients participating in Co-Dependents Anonymous, Adult Children of Alcoholics, the Alanon Family Program, Relationships Anonymous, Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous and other 12 Step fellowships sometimes wonder why their patients have taken on “odd, new, dysfunctional beliefs” or even developed new pathologies. One commonly observed syndrome if greatly increased reference to absolutistic, black-and-white thinking, all-or-nothing, all-right (vs. all-wrong) interpretations of the particular program’s literature and cultural pronouncements. It is well understood that “addicts” of various sorts tend to be addicts in part because of their concretism (see Piaget) and overly simplistic moralism (see Kohlberg). One of the requirements of long-term treatment of addicts is acquisition of awareness of their polarized dialectics (see Linehan, Follette & Pistorello, and Marra) and development of more intellectually mature, formal operational processing (see Piaget). The acquisition of the capacity to identify, question, reframe and either reject or revise dialectically positioned, opposing, core beliefs is widely understood among DBT and other MBCT-style therapists to be the key to relieving the “white knuckle” syndrome. Read further: http://sighkoblahgrr.blogspot.com/2011/05/12-step-bureaucracy.html Quote facebook. /teresa.quintero.790 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted August 15, 2012 Members Share Posted August 15, 2012 I'd actually like to see Shane weigh in on this. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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