GSO (GB) Leads Members Away from Traditions - Again!

See GSO website “Event Calendar” November 2014  
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/Members/Event-Calendar 

Costa Del Sol Intergroup “Back to Basics” Convention

http://aaconventionspain.org.uk/ 

Starring (take your pick!)

Clancy I

And by “popular demand”…

Bob D (Las Vegas) & Mary P (Los Angeles) – aka. Mary Poppins?

“A Fun night out with local AA’s enjoying their recovery.” (According to Costa Del Sol Intergroup “Back to Basics” Convention) (Winter)

http://aaconventionspain.org.uk/entertainment/ 

Comment: Why would gullible alcoholics spend their cash to travel to the Costa del Sol in a cold, wet November, when sane people go to Costa del Sol for hot beaches and tourist entertainment in summer? And why would GSO (GB) use its website to promote an event which abandons the principle of Tradition Twelve?

http://www.aa.org/twelveandtwelve/en_tableofcnt.cfm

To find the answers to these intriguing questions see Clancy I’s comment in the Washington Post, 22/07/2007 “Midtown AA Group Leads Members Away from Traditions” by Marc Fisher 

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/07/midtown_group_aa_group_leads_m.html 

Clancy I in “The Dark Legacy of a Rehab Cult” by J.D. Dickey, The Fix, 05/09/12

http://www.thefix.com/content/aa-cults-synanon-legacy0009?page=all 

Clancy I in “AA Cults I Have Known” by Benjamin Aldo, The Fix, 07/25/13
http://www.thefix.com/content/cult-aa-Atlantic-Group-Clancy-Pacific-Group-London-Joys2092 

“The Pacific Group of Clancy I.” Orange Papers 

http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-clancy_i.html 

“The Cult within AA – The Pacific Group” Shelley’s Blog 

http://qtpi1969.net/?s=pacific+group+of+AA 

Clancy Imislund , Managing Director, The Midnight Mission http://www.midnightmission.org/staff/clancy-imislund-2/ 

The Midnight Mission Leadership and Staff 

http://www.midnightmission.org/about/leadership-staff/ 

The Midnight Mission Financial Information 

http://www.midnightmission.org/about/midnight-mission-financial-information/ 

“Alcoholics and narcotics anonymous: A radical movement under threat”  Zafiridis P and Lainas S., 2012 (Department of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Addiction Research and Theory, 20( 2) 93-104 http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232038226_Alcoholics_and_narcotics_anonymous_A_radical_movement_under_threat (Free download)

The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry” by Maia Szalavitz 

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/cult-spawned-tough-love-teen-industry 

“Aftermath – the Synanon Legacy" by Paul Morantz 

http://www.paulmorantz.com/the_synanon_story/aftermath-the-synanon-legacy/ 

“Coercive Persuasion and Attitude Change” Richard J Ofshe Encyclopedia of Sociology Vol. 1 

http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/wh2Cjr4E38HgFqqmUdfXng==99651 

“Extreme Influence – Thought Reform, High Control Groups, Interrogation and Recovered Memory Psychotherapy” Richard J Ofshe, Encyclopedia of Sociology, Vol. 2,  2001 

http://find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?&source=gale&idigest=fb720fd31d9036c1ed2d1f3a0500fcc2&prodId=GIC&userGroupName=itsbtrial&tabID=T001&docId=CX3404400125&type=retrieve&contentSet=EBKS&version=1.0 

"Whatever Happened to Twelve-Step Programs?" Kurtz E (1999)
http://www.williamwhitepapers.com/pr/Dr.%20Ernie%20Kurtz%20on%20Twelve-Step%20Programs%2C%201996.pdf 

“The use of confrontation in addiction treatment: History, science and time for change.” White, W. & Miller, W., 2007,Counselor, 8(4), 12-30) http://www.williamwhitepapers.com/pr/2007ConfrontationinAddictionTreatment.pdf 

Trick or Treat? A Century of American Responses to Heroin Addiction’ White, W. L. (2002) 

http://www.williamwhitepapers.com/pr/2002HistoryofHeroinAddictionTreatment.pdf 

“Walk the Line” by Harry Shapiro and Carolyn Oubridrge, Druglink July/August 2012. 

http://www.drugscope.org.uk/Resources/Drugscope/Documents/PDF/Publications/WalktheLine.pdf 

“Professional Service and Recovery Advocacy in England An Interview with Mark Gilman, MA Strategic Recovery Lead National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse” White, W. L. (2011) 

http://www.williamwhitepapers.com/pr/2011%20England,%20Mark%20Gilman%20Interview.pdf 

David Deitch, Ph.D. and George De Leon, Ph.D. on Recovery Management and the Future of the Therapeutic Community; William L. White, M.A; Counselor, 11(5), 38-49. 

http://www.williamwhitepapers.com/pr/2010%20Dr.%20David%20Deitch%20%26%20Dr.%20George%20De%20Leon.pdf 

“Conversation with David Deitch,” Addiction, 1999, 94(6), 791-800 Wiley online Library

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1080/09652149933261/pdf 

'The SYNANON Self Help Organization and its Contribution to the Understanding and Treatment of Addiction.' Zafiridis Ph. (2011), Therapeutic Communities, 32(2), 125 –141 

http://www.selfhelp.gr/attachments/article/57/Synanon_eng.pdf 

“Retrospective Study of Similarities and Relations between the American Drug-Free and the European Therapeutic Communities for Children and Adults” Broekaert E, Vanderplasschen W., Temmerman I., Ottenberg D., Kaplan C., 2000, Journal of  Psychoactive Drugs 32(4) 407- 417 

http://www.ortserve.ugent.be/img/doc/definitiefpsychoactief.pdf 

“Thought Reform Programs and the Production of Psychiatric Casualties” Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph. D., and Richard Ofshe, Ph. D., 1990, Psychiatric Annals 20(4)  
http://www.nwrain.net/~refocus/mental.html 

“Attacks on Peripheral Versus Central Elements of Self and the Impact of Thought Reforming Techniques” Richard Ofshe, Ph.D. and Margaret T. Singer, Ph.D. 1986, Cultic Studies Journal, 3(1)

http://www.intervention101.com/2013/10/attacks-on-peripheral-versus-central.html 

“New York Notes- Are You Looking At Me”? Maia Szalavitz, 2013, Druglink 28(4) 29

http://www.drugscope.org.uk/Resources/Drugscope/Documents/PDF/Publications/DruglinkJulyAug2013.pdf 

(You may have to join the dots and book a holiday)

Cheerio,

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)