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By Trysh Travis

In The Language of the Heart, Trysh Travis explores the wealthy cultural background of Alcoholics nameless (AA) and its offshoots and the bigger "recovery circulate" that has grown out of them. relocating from AA's beginnings within the mid-1930s as a men's fellowship that met in church basements to the completely commercialized habit remedy facilities of this day, Travis chronicles the advance of restoration and examines its dating to the large American culture of self-help, highlighting the jobs that gender, mysticism, and bibliotherapy have performed in that development.

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