2023-07-14 Fri 16:29 ![[DALL·E 2023-10-31 18.40.18 - Abstract painting_ Swirling vortex of dark, chaotic colors like deep purples, blacks, and blues at one corner, gradually blending and transitioning to.png]] | Alcoholics Anonymous^[[[https://www.aa.org/the-twelve-steps]]] | Russell Brand's version^[[[russell-brand-recovery-the-program.pdf]]] | Interpersonal group psychotherapy^[[[Ref. Irvin Yalom & Molyn Leszcz 2020 (og 1970) - The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy]]] | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | (1) We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. | (1) Are you a bit fucked? | (1) Relinquish grandiosity and counterdependence. Begin the process of trusting the process and the power of the group. | | (2) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. | (2) Could you not be fucked? | (2) Self-repair through relationships and human connection. Reframe "power greater than ourselves" into a source of soothing, nurturance, and hope that may replace the reliance on substances. | | (3) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. | (3) Are you, on your own, going to ‘unfuck’ yourself? | (3) Make a leap of trust in the therapy procedure and the goodwill of fellow group members. | | (4) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. | (4) Write down all the things that are fucking you up or have ever fucked you up and don’t lie or leave anything out. | (4) Self-discovery. Search within. Learn as much about yourself as possible. | | (5) Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. | (5) Honestly tell someone trustworthy about how fucked you are. | (5) Self-disclosure. Share your inner world with others — the experiences that fill you with shame and guilt as well as your dreams and hopes. | | (6) Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. | (6) Well that’s revealed a lot of fucked-up patterns. Do you want to stop it? Seriously? | (6) Explore and illuminate, in the here-and-now of the treatment, all destructive interpersonal actions that invite relapses. The task of the group is to help members find the resources within themselves to prepare to take action. | | (7) Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. | (7) Are you willing to live in a new way that’s not all about you and your previous, fucked-up stuff? You have to. | (7) Acknowledge interpersonal feelings and behaviors that hinder satisfying relationships. Modify these by experimenting with new behaviors. Request and accept feedback in order to broaden your interpersonal repertoire. Though the group offers the opportunity to work on issues, it is your responsibility to do the work. | | (8) Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. | (8) Prepare to apologize to everyone for everything affected by your being so fucked-up. | (8) Identify interpersonal injuries you have been responsible for; develop empathy for others' feelings. Try to appreciate the impact of your actions on others and develop the willingness to repair injury. | | (9) Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. | (9) Now apologize. Unless that would make things worse. | (9) Use the group as a testing ground for the sequence of recognition and repair. Start the night-step work by making amends to other group members whom you have in any manner impeded or offended. | | (10) Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. | (10) Watch out for fucked-up thinking and behavior and be honest when it happens. | (10) Internalize the process of self-reflection, assumption of responsibility, and self-revelation. Make these attributes part of your way of being in the therapy group and in your outside life. | | (11) Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. | (11) Stay connected to your new perspective. | (11) No direct psychotherapeutic focus, but the therapy group may support mind-calming meditation and spiritual exploration. | | (12) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. | (12) Look at life less selfishly, be nice to everyone, help people if you can. | (12) Become actively concerned for others, beginning with your fellow group members. Embracing an altruistic way of being in the world will raise your love and respect for yourself. |