Shame & Guilt (Hindsfoot Foundation Series on Treatment and Recovery)
Ernest Kurtz, who completed his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University in 1978, was the first researcher to be granted full access to the archives of Alcoholics Anonymous. The book that resulted, Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous (1979), published forty years after the publication of the A.A. Big Book, is still the classic work on the subject. His book on the spiritual life?Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Stories (1992)?is equally well known, and has also been an enduring best seller through the years since it appeared. He has also contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals on the topic of alcoholism and its treatment, and on the spiritual component of the A.A. approach. A recent selection of some of his articles and essays can be found in Ernest Kurtz, The Collected Ernie Kurtz (Wheeling, West Virginia: Bishop of Books, 1999).