title: The ideology of a therapeutic social movement: Alcoholics Anonymous.
abstract: Some of the medical, psychological and religious origins of Alcoholics Anonymous are traced, and aspects of A.A. and the Washingtonian Movement are compared.
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000436:Alcoholics Anonymous / Q000266:history*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001290:Attitude; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011584:Psychology; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D014481:United States