Finish

The book club sessions ended this week.

18th meeting

• Date: Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010
• Time: 19:00 – 20:30
• Location: Meguro (see “About” tab for more info)
• Theme: ACA Redbook.

Content: We’ll read pages of the ACA Redbook from
“Adult Children of Alcoholics and its Beginnings–ACA Came West (1976-1979): Jack E.”
to “Chapter 1 The Laundry List – Problem”

17th meeting

• Date: Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010
• Time: 19:00 – 20:30
• Location: Meguro (see “About” tab for more info)
• Theme: 59 Seconds.

Content: We’ll be discussing excerpts from a book called 59 Seconds.

Announcement: TIME Recovery Month this September

TIME online explores the nature of recovery in a series of conversations with researchers and others at the forefront of the addiction field. Over the last 20 years, new research on addiction has overturned old dogmas about recovery. Now, after long-standing resistance to change, the addiction-treatment establishment has begun to reconsider its fundamental nature.

Link to the article

16th meeting

Note: the meeting was postponed to Sept. 22 !

• Date: Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010 (postponed !!)
• Time: 19:00 – 20:30
• Location: Meguro (see “About” tab for more info)
• Theme: Abstracts on Nature of Depression

Content: We read and discuss abstracts on the nature of depression.

15th meeting

• Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
• Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
• Location: St. Anselm’s Meguro. Please click on the “About” tab above for more info
• Theme: Adult Children Alcoholics Red Book (Big Book)

Content:
We read aloud the chapters from “Introduction” to “Adult Children of Alcoholics and Its Beginnings.”

14th meeting

• Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010
• Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
• Location: St. Anselm’s Meguro. Please click on the “About” tab above for more info
• Theme: Cool Water, William Alexander

Content:
A member presents the book “Cool Water” by William Alexander, (1997).

13th meeting

• Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010
• Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
• Location: St. Anselm’s Meguro. Please click on the “About” tab above for more info
• Theme: Adult Children Alcoholics Red Book (Big Book)

Content:
We read aloud the chapters “Adult Child” to “ACA Disease Model.”

12th meeting

• Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
• Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
• Location: St. Anselm’s Meguro. Please click on the “About” tab above for more info
• Theme: David Richo. How to be an Adult

Content:
We will talk about selected chapters of David Richo’s “How to be an Adult”.

11th meeting

• Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010
• Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
• Location: St. Anselm’s Meguro. Please click on the “About” tab above for more info
• Theme: Viktor Frankl’s Man’s search for meaning. Part II

Content:
We will continue to discuss the major points of Viktor Frankl. Man’s search for meaning.