The arguable new book “Phoenix in a Bottle” by Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald would accomplish the ideal Christmas present of achievement for alcoholics from their friends, ancestors and admired ones - say publishers Melrose Books. “Phoenix in a Bottle” is the accurate adventure of Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald, two above alcoholics from Ayrshire in Scotland who, eleven years ago, were down and out and sleeping asperous in the streets and parks of Cambridge, the university boondocks area a division of a aeon ahead Murdoch had advised as an undergraduate for his amount in English Literature at Magdalene College.
-- The arguable new book “Phoenix in a Bottle” by Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald would accomplish the ideal Christmas present of achievement for alcoholics from their friends, ancestors and admired ones - say publishers Melrose Books.
“Phoenix in a Bottle” is the accurate adventure of Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald, two above alcoholics from Ayrshire in Scotland who, eleven years ago, were down and out, sleeping asperous in the streets and parks of Cambridge, the university boondocks area a division of a aeon ahead Murdoch had advised as an undergraduate for his amount in English Literature at Magdalene College.
Lilian and Murdoch approved Alcoholics Anonymous abounding times, but eventually assuredly alone its anachronous and authoritarian article that alcoholism is an cureless affliction or disease, and that the alone achievement for the alcoholic is constant sobriety.
"Alcoholism is not a disease," say Lilian and Murdoch. "It is a self-harming behaviour botheration abiding in childhood, and if alcoholics are accommodating to analyze and abode their issues from the past, again there is no acumen why they should not be able to rid themselves of their botheration behaviour, even to the admeasurement of accepting able to alcohol booze cautiously and responsibly afresh if and if they so wish."
“After all,” Lilian and Murdoch point out, “lifelong abnegation is not accretion from alcohol. It is just alleviative the evidence rather than the basal cause, and alone a damage-limitation exercise.”
The two above alcoholics continue: "There is a charge for a casting new common organisation to alter Alcoholics Anonymous, a acquaintance which is now anachronous and ashore in a rut that it is afraid or clumsy to get out of in adjustment to abode its own self-confessed bottomless abortion rate.
"According to both an absolute US government analysis and AA’s own associates surveys, AA-style analysis works for alone 5% of its participants."
Leading American addiction able Dr. Marc Kern commented: “These two surveys acutely appearance that, afterwards 12 months of attendance, 95% of the aboriginal participants accept larboard the programme and either resumed their annihilative behaviour or hopefully – but beneath acceptable – approved advice elsewhere.
"These humans accept not failed," insists Dr Kern.
"The 12-Step access has bootless them."
Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald aspect the abortion of the 12-Step programme to the actuality that Alcoholics Anonymous stubbornly insists aloft alleviative alcoholism as a accelerating and cureless affliction or disease, from which alone absolution is accessible by afraid to a austere administration of abnegation from alcohol.
They say: "Perpetuation of the ache abstraction of alcoholism is aided and abetted by clandestine adjust clinics that accept piggybacked AA and hijacked its 12-Step programme for their own profit."
"Alcoholics Anonymous has the band-aid to its problems in its own hands," abide Lilian and Murdoch.
"Any accustomed organisation would be accessible to new ideas, and would acceptable altercation and change as new discoveries and advance were fabricated in the acreage of alcoholism.
"Unfortunately AA has adopted a cult-like attitude, and commendations its alleged programme of accretion as set in rock forever. No changes accept been fabricated or even accustomed in the 70 years of its existence, and no analytic or altercation is tolerated."
So Lilian and Murdoch conclude: "A absolutely new organisation is the alone solution.
"An organisation that does not seek to bolster the ache archetypal of alcoholism continued afterwards its sell-by date.
"One that does not advocate constant abnegation as a prerequisite for recovery, but instead empowers alcoholics to adapt their behaviour in the way that they accept for themselves.
"One that does not assert aloft boring pseudo-religion into a bearings in which it has neither use nor relevance.
"And assuredly one that welcomes change and advance in the compassionate of alcoholism, and is accommodating to access assorted means of alleviative it, instead of dogmatically promulgating and assiduity a one-size-fits-all access that is ashore in the accomplished forever."
“Phoenix in a Bottle”
“Phoenix in a Bottle” by Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald has been appear by Melrose Books amount £16.99. ISBN: 1905226144
Eminent American analyst and addiction able Dr Stanton Peele PhD commented:
“Phoenix in a Bottle is a avant-garde adaptation of The Days of Wine and Roses, and tells the accurate adventure of how two humans who entered a aeon of atrocious bubbler backward with one addition in a abutting admiring relationship, and emerged from their alcoholism able to alcohol responsibly again.
“Both a admirable adulation adventure and a claiming to accepted acumen about how humans can balance from bubbler problems, Phoenix in a Bottle gives humans hope, and helps them to accost their own demons - booze or otherwise.”
“Phoenix in a Bottle” is accessible from www.amazon.co.uk and added online bookstores, and absolute from the publishers at www.internationalbiographicalcentre.com/mb/dotcom/detail.php?isbn=1905226144
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